Canvas learning platform suffers massive outage after ShinyHunters hacking group breaches 9,000 schools, threatens to leak data from 275 million students and staff by May 12, 2026 unless ransom paid

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group.A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group.by May 7, 2026, 9:29 PM UTCCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty ImagesEmma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.The Instructure-o...