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Canvas cyberattack impacts millions of students nationwide

A hacker group named "ShinyHunters" claims to have breached Instructure, the parent company of the widely used education system Canvas.

The group is threatening to release stolen data affecting millions of students and teachers unless a ransom is paid by May 12.

Thousands of K-12 schools and universities nationwide, including major institutions like the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania, are impacted.

A cybersecurity firm analyst said that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected, with billions of private messages and other records potentially accessed.

Instructure has reported no indication that sensitive information such as passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers, or financial data was involved in the breach.

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