Massive Canvas data breach: Alabama colleges among the victims

UAB and Auburn University are among the victims of a massive data breach affecting their learning management systems.

Canvas, a learning management system used by schools across the country, was hacked by cyber extortion group ShinyHunters. A notice on the Canvas website directed users to contact the group to negotiate a settlement.

“SHINYHUNTERS rooting your systems since ‘19 ;)” a notice on affected systems reads. “ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored you us and did some ‘security patches’.”…

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