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Instructure (Canvas LMS)

Data breachRansom paid

Instructure Canvas LMS ShinyHunters breach (2026)

ShinyHunters exploited Canvas's Free-For-Teacher account programme to exfiltrate 3.65 TB of data spanning approximately 275 million users across nearly 9,000 schools — names, email addresses, student IDs, and some private messages between students and teachers. Instructure reportedly paid the ransom and the data was destroyed.

Victim
Instructure (Canvas LMS)
Loss
$10.0M
Records
275.0M