Top universities among victims named in Canvas data breach - MIT, Oxford and more all hit

Date:
Thu, 07 May 2026 15:10:00 +0000

Description:
ShinyHunters is increasing the heat on Instructure by listing all of the potential victims of the Canvas breach.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter ShinyHunters claim the Instructure attack exposed data from nearly 9,000 schools and 275M
individuals Newly named victims include elite universities (Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Stanford, Cambridge, etc.) and major tech firms With ransom due May
7, at least 47M students risk exposure if negotiations fail Some of the
worlds top universities, including the likes Harvard, Oxford, and MIT, may have had their sensitive data stolen by ShinyHunters in the recent Canvas breach.

Instructure, the edtech giant behind the popular Canvas learning system, recently confirmed suffering a cyberattack and losing sensitive customer
data. Now, to further pressure Instructure into paying the ransom demand, ShinyHunters shared more details about different organizations affected by
the breach. It listed more than 8,800 educational institutions in 10
different countries, such as the US, Australia, the UK, and Sweden. You may like Canvas maker Instructure reveals data breach confirms user personal information leaked 11 million students possibly at risk after classroom software used by millions hacked McGraw Hill becomes latest to see its Salesforce data hacked Latest Videos From Thousands of victims, millions of files It claims that besides Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, other major organizations are affected, too, including Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Cambridge, Cornell, Berkeley, and Georgetown.

Major tech companies are also allegedly affected, including Amazon , Apple , and Cisco. It could mean that these organizations used Canvas to educate
their employees but at this stage, this is pure speculation.

The deadline to pay the ransom demand is May 7, 2026, and if Instructure decides not to pay, at least 47 million students could have their sensitive data exposed to other hackers.

The company said the crooks accessed certain identifying information of users at affected institutions, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and user communications. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news
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Passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers, or financial information, were not involved, and the company revoked privileged credentials and access tokens associated with affected systems in order to mitigate the threat.

At the same time, ShinyHunters, one of the most active ransomware groups
right now, added Instructure to its data leak website, claiming to have
stolen information from nearly 9,000 schools, affecting 275 million individuals.

"Several billions of private messages among students and teachers and
students and other students involved, containing personal conversations and other PII. Your Salesforce instance was also breached and a lot more other data is involved, ShinyHunters allegedly said at the time.

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