{"id":106496,"date":"2026-05-07T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=eaafa79db19771a8e1774dd01fdfe6ea"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:02:09","slug":"canvas-is-down-as-shinyhunters-threatens-to-leak-schools-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106496","title":{"rendered":"Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools\u2019 data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/926458\/canvas-shinyhunters-breach\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Instructure got hacked twice this week, and now Canvas is down nationally during many colleges finals week.  Fabulous.<\/div><figure>\n\n<img alt=\"Graphic illustration of students walking down a hallway in school.\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25332725\/STK419_DEEPFAKE_CVIRGINIA_L.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t<figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that <a href=\"https:\/\/status.instructure.com\/incidents\/9wm4knj2r64z\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impacted student names<\/a>, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students attempting to access the system on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/UTSA\/comments\/1t6lsdw\/canvas_got_hacked\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saw a message<\/a> from the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for the attack:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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 of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to &hellip;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/926458\/canvas-shinyhunters-breach\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down af&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}