Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

The article reports that extortion group ShinyHunters compromised Instructure/Canvas, claiming theft of data linked to hundreds of millions of students, teachers, and staff, then pressured victims via portal defacements and school-by-school extortion; Instructure says attackers provided shred logs but analysts distrust deletion claims and warn of imminent phishing, harassment, and further attacks across the education sector.