A large outage of the learning service started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group
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A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group.
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You have till the end of the day by 12 May 2026 before everything is leaked
Instructure has placed Canvas, Canvas Beta and Canvas Test in maintenance mode,” according to Infrastructure’s status page
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The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages
Summary
The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). The message included a link to a list of schools ShinyHunter claims to have breached through Canvas. “Instructure has placed Canvas, Canvas Beta and Canvas Test in maintenance mode,” according to Infrastructure’s status page.