Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group.

by Emma Roth

May 7, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC

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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. Students attempting to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for the attack:

ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some “security patches.” If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release...

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