Instructure Cut a Deal With Hackers Who Breached Canvas
Instructure struck a deal with hackers to return stolen Canvas data but won't say what it gave in exchange.
Instructure, the company behind Canvas — the learning platform used by thousands of schools and universities worldwide — got hacked. And then it negotiated.
The company reached an agreement with the attackers to return stolen data and destroy any copies. What did Instructure give up in return? Nobody knows. The company isn't saying.
That's the uncomfortable reality here. A major education software provider had its platform breached, cut a deal with the people who did it, and is staying tight-lipped about the terms.
Canvas serves a massive global footprint across K-12 and higher education. A breach of this scale raises serious questions about what student and institutional data was exposed — and what exactly it cost to get it back.
Instructure has offered no further details on the arrangement.