Businesses are advised against paying but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacyAfter a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and school login pages being defaced by hackers, the US tech firm Instructure which operates the education platform Canvas, used by education providers worldwide announced it had <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/12/canvas-hacker-deal-student-stolen-data”>”reached an agreement with the unauthorised actor” behind the ransomware attack.Experts read the careful language as a sign that a ransom has been paid. The company has not confirmed this. <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/17/canvas-hack-cyber-criminals-data-ransom-paid”>Continue reading…
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