🎓 Canvas Breach Exposes 275 Million Records in Widespread EdTech Outage

Instructure-owned learning platform Canvas suffered a significant service outage following a cyberattack that potentially compromised the data of 275 million users. A hacking group claimed responsibility for the breach, asserting they had accessed sensitive information from the parent company's databases. The outage disrupted access for thousands of schools and universities globally, though Instructure reported that most services were restored within several hours. This incident follows a growing trend of ransomware and data theft targeting educational infrastructure, raising questions about the centralized nature of student data storage. While Canvas has resumed operations, the full extent of the data exfiltration and the specific identity of the attackers remain under investigation by cybersecurity experts and federal authorities.