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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Paid Off

Remember last week's hacking into Canvas that caused an interruption in availability of Bruin Learn?

It turns out that Instructure, the supplier of Canvas, paid a ransom to get its data back, presumably thereby protecting all the students and faculty in the various universities that use Canvas. From Inside Higher Ed:

Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. nstructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by the education-technology company Monday night, the deal means that the hackers have returned the compromised data of some 275 million users across more than 8,800 institutions...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-hackers.

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