ShinyHunters Breaches Canvas LMS Again — 9,000 Schools, 275M Users Exposed, May 12 Leak Deadline

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Hacking group ShinyHunters breached Instructure's Canvas LMS for the second time, claiming access to data from nearly 9,000 schools worldwide including MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, Columbia, and UC Berkeley — affecting 275 million users. Exposed data includes names, emails, student IDs, and user messages. ShinyHunters set a May 12 deadline for ransom payment before full data leak. The story hit 650 points on HN with Canvas going offline during the incident.