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Troy Hunt: Weekly Update 502 #shinyhunters #instructure

Weekly Update 502
It's a fascinating display of leverage: the ShinyHunters folks, with very limited resources and experience (their demographic will be teenagers to their early 20s), consistently gaining access to the data of massive brands. Not through technical ingenuity alone (although I'm sure there's a portion of that), but primarily through good

Edtech firm Instructure has reached an agreement with cybercrime group #shinyhunters which hacked its Canvas learning platform.
Extortion-as-a-service continues to pay dividends.
Tough decision but paying up keeps the tap running.

Canvas owner reaches deal with ShinyHunters after global data breach
American edtech firm Instructure says it has reached an agreement with the cybercrime group ShinyHunters, which hacked its Canvas learning platform in the middle of ...