Instructure cyberattack results in widespread Canvas outage
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 8 (ZFJ) — A cyberattack on Instructure resulted in its Canvas learning management system going down on Thursday, May 7.
Instructure, a platform used by thousands of universities and K12 schools in the U.S. and globally, was compromised by extortion gang ShinyHunters, which claimed on its Tor data leak site that it had exfiltrated over 3.65 terabytes of personally identifiable information (PII) and private messages sent via Canvas Inbox for nearly 9,000 schools.