Canvas has been disabled due to ShinyHunters threatening to leak school data

Instructure’s proprietary learning management platform, Canvas, has gone down after recently confirming a massive data breach Names of affected studentsEmail addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students trying to access the system on Thursday He saw a message From the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for the attack:

ShinyHunters has hacked the instructions (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve the issue, they ignored us and made some “security patches.” If any of the schools on the affected list are interested in having their data not published, please consult an electronic consulting firm and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a settlement. You have until the end of the day on May 12, 2026 before everything is leaked.

The message included a link to a list of schools that ShinyHunter allegedly hacked via Canvas. The platform The status page says CanvasCanvas Beta and Canvas Test are currently unavailable and an outage is being investigated.

Instructure said last week that it had “deployed patches to enhance system security” following the hack. ShinyHunters – التي أعلنت مسؤوليتها عن الهجمات على , , , and So he sends according to Sleeping computer.