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Canvas Breach: Operational Outage vs. Systemic Governance Failure — Why Homeland Security Wants Answers

The Canvas breach tied to the ShinyHunters group interrupted teaching at thousands of schools, but the U.S. Homeland Security Committee’s May 21 demand for Instructure testimony signals a deeper issue: this incident is as much about governance, contracting, and data protection across education technology as it is about a temporary outage. Classroom disruption and what […]

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ShinyHunters claims 3.65 TB from Canvas — breach exposes systemic third‑party and CRM risks in EdTech

Instructure’s Canvas platform has suffered a large-scale data theft that ShinyHunters says totaled 3.65 terabytes of information tied to roughly 275 million people at nearly 9,000 schools. The central signal: attackers repeatedly exploited third‑party integrations and cloud CRM access, not exposed passwords or direct financial systems. How attackers leveraged integrations and CRM access Security researchers […]

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