ShinyHunters escalates Canvas attacks with school login defacements

Days after confirming a major data breach, Instructure is now facing a second blow. Earlier this week, Instructure confirmed a major data breach affecting its cloud‑hosted Canvas environment, with the ShinyHunters group claiming it stole hundreds of millions of records tied to thousands of schools and universities worldwide. As discussed in our earlier blog , that incident involved data such as student and staff records, enrollment details, and private messages allegedly accessed through Canvas