- A hacker group named "ShinyHunters" claims to have breached Instructure, the parent company of the widely used education system Canvas.
- The group is threatening to release stolen data affecting millions of students and teachers unless a ransom is paid by May 12.
- Thousands of K-12 schools and universities nationwide, including major institutions like the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania, are impacted.
- A cybersecurity firm analyst said that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected, with billions of private messages and other records potentially accessed.
- Instructure has reported no indication that sensitive information such as passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers, or financial data was involved in the breach.
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