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’.”…