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Instructure confirms hackers used Canvas flaw to deface portals By Ionut Ilascu May 11, 2026 11:26 AM Education technology giant Instructure has confirmed that a security vulnerability allowed hackers to modify…
Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure…
…House Committee on Homeland Security is calling on Instructure executives to testify about two cyberattacks by the ShinyHunters extortion group that targeted the company's Canvas platform, allowing threat actors to…
…Instructure, which makes the popular Canvas school information portal software, has faced criticism for its response to the attacks, especially after it conceded that the hackers abused the same vulnerability to steal…
Canvas Just Sent a Dangerous Message to Hackers: Crime Pays If You Do It Right
Anyone in the education space seeing Canvas disruptions? I'm getting reports of a ransoming at one of our state schools Thanks, folks. [EDIT] Wow - now I'm getting all the reports... world-wide, 9000 schools. Slick. It s…
https://downdetector.com/status/instructure Every instance I can check shows this message from SHINYHUNTERS: https://imgur.com/a/PhBrNXq (EDIT: Instructure has gotten rid of the group's message in favor of their own down…
So apparently Canvas got hacked by ShinyHunters (3?!) times and is currently completely down. The cybercriminal group said the deadline is on May 12st, and if Instructure doesn't comply, they'll leak the PII of all stude…
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…The group also locked students out of Canvas. Later Thursday, Instructure, which makes Canvas, was able to mostly put Canvas back online ; it is not clear if the company paid a ransom…
April 28, 2026 2:13 pm ET update Elegoo has informed us that the first batch of Canvas for Centauri Carbon has "sold out," so the shipping timeline has been changed to…
…ShinyHunters hackte recent Canvas, een onderwijsplatform dat door duizenden scholen en universiteiten wereldwijd wordt gebruikt.
…The company is now baking in its own take on AI smarts via a new AI agent that operates within its collaborative canvas. Figma says users can employ natural language text prompts…
…Mortenax Blade is the hero of this chapter, and he’s going to step into the World in Canvas. The goal is to - by borrowing the power of Voracity - excise Shuhu from…
Instructure, the company behind cloud-based learning management system Canvas, has suffered a massive data breach. Ransomware group ShinyHunters has since claimed responsibility for the attack, alleging that it has exfiltrated data…
