Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data.
(Alessandro Penso/The New York Times) A university library in Verona, Italy, March 6, 2026. The maker of Canvas, the software used by thousands of schools and universities around the world, said on May 11 that it had reached a deal with the hackers that recently breached its systems for the return of stolen data and the destruction of any copies.