{"id":23111,"date":"2026-05-17T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/canvas-hack-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-pay-a-ransom-and-what-happens-to-the-data\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:37:15","slug":"canvas-hack-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-pay-a-ransom-and-what-happens-to-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/canvas-hack-is-it-ever-a-good-idea-to-pay-a-ransom-and-what-happens-to-the-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesses are advised against paying \u2013 but many are prepared to deal to protect users\u2019 privacy<\/p>\n

After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students\u2019 data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and school login pages being defaced by hackers, the US tech firm Instructure \u2013 which operates the education platform Canvas, used by education providers worldwide \u2013 announced it had \u201creached an agreement with the unauthorised actor\u201d<\/a> behind the ransomware attack.<\/p>\n

Experts read the careful language as a sign that a ransom has been paid. The company has not confirmed this.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nBusinesses are advised against paying \u2013 but many are prepared to deal to protect users\u2019 privacy
\nAfter a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students\u2019 data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and school login pages being defaced by hackers, the US tech firm Instructure \u2013 which operates the education platform Canvas, used by education providers worldwide \u2013 announced it had \u201creached an agreement with the unauthorised actor\u201d behind the ransomware attack.
\nExperts read the careful language as a sign that a ransom has been paid. The company has not confirmed this. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Businesses are advised against paying \u2013 but many are prepared to deal to protect users\u2019 privacy After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students\u2019 data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and school login pages being defaced by hackers, the US tech firm Instructure \u2013 which operates the education platform Canvas, used by education …<\/p>\n

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}