Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Another recent victim of ShinyHunters is Instructure, the supplier of the Canvas learning management system, which disrupted the login portals of 330 colleges and universities during the critical college exam schedule.
According to Dataminr, ShinyHunters “claimed to have stolen 3.654TB of data affecting about 275 million individuals and 9,000 institutions worldwide.” The stolen data…
On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint alleges that Instructure violated children’s federal and state privacy rights. According to the complaint, Instructure states that it collects various account information about children, including name…
