Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threaten to leak school data

Instructure’s learning management platform, Canvas, has gone down after recently confirming a major data breach affect student namesemail addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students are trying to find a plan on Thursday he saw the message from the ShinyHunters scam group, which claimed responsibility for the attack:

ShinyHunters has broken Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve the issue they ignored us and other “security issues”. If any school on the affected list wishes to prevent the release of their data, please contact a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to discuss. You have until the end of the day on 12 May 2026 before it’s all gone.

The message included a link to a list of schools that ShinyHunter claimed had breached Canvas. On the platform The writing page is called CanvasCanvas Beta, and Canvas Test are not currently available and are currently being investigated for shutdown.

Instructure said last week that it had “deployed patches to strengthen system security” following the breach. ShinyHunters – which has claimed responsibility for the attack Ticketmaster, The cost of AT&T, Rockstar Games, The price of ADTand Vercel – said its catchment area is 9,000 schools, including 275 million students, teachers, and other staff, According to Computer Rest.