Canvas Cyberattack Leaves Thousands of Students Scrambling Amid Finals
ShinyHunters said it stole names, email addresses and student ID numbers from Canvas users and threatened to leak private messages unless paid.
- Instructure has confirmed a cyberattack that exposed names, email addresses, IDs, and user communications of students and staff at affected institutions.
- The company stated that the attackers accessed 'certain identifying information of users', including names and email addresses.
- A group named 'ShinyHunters' has claimed responsibility for the breach and threatened to leak data unless contacted by May 12, 2026.
- Multiple colleges across the U.S. have confirmed being notified of this security incident.
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Universities such as Harvard, Stanford and thousands of other educational centers were affected by a large-scale cyber attack directed against an educational platform.The action was attributed to ShinyHunters, an active cyberextortion group at least since 2019, whose intervention led to the interruption of access to the Canvas platform. Threats and blackmail following the intrusion into Canvas The reports of the Harvard Crimson student newspaper…
Hackers attack widely-used learning platform, disrupting schools nationwide
Hackers launched a ransomware attack Thursday against Canvas, the online learning platform used by thousands of colleges and K-12 schools across the country. The cyberattack knocked the service offline for hours at a critical time in the academic year, with students preparing for finals and wrapping up classes. Major universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and Georgetown, all reported outages. In some cases, a ransom note appeared …
A suspected hacker attack has knocked out the learning platform Canvas at several universities. Thousands of students were met with a blackmail message – and are now without course materials. “We can’t get into anything. Everyone is stressed,” says Klara Björk, 21, a student at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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