Education — Canvas LMS breach disrupts schools nationwide as edtech security and curriculum access face simultaneous pressure

Education · 2026-05-07

Today's developments converge on a single theme: the infrastructure of American education — digital, financial, and intellectual — is under coordinated stress. The Canvas breach by ShinyHunters is not a minor incident; it is a live, ongoing extortion campaign that has defaced school login pages and exposed student PII across an LMS that serves tens of millions. Simultaneously, legislators are…