{"id":236337,"date":"2026-05-01T22:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/edu-tech-firm-instructure-discloses-cyber-incident-probes-impact"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:24:52","slug":"edu-tech-firm-instructure-discloses-cyber-incident-probes-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/edu-tech-firm-instructure-discloses-cyber-incident-probes-impact","title":{"rendered":"Edu tech firm Instructure discloses cyber incident, probes impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/edu-tech-firm-instructure-discloses-cyber-incident-probes-impact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, has disclosed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity incident and is now investigating its impact.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-based education technology company is best known for developing Canvas, a widely used learning management system that helps schools, universities, and organizations manage coursework, assignments, and online learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstructure recently experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor. We are actively investigating this incident with the help of outside forensics experts,\u201d reads a statement from Steve Proud, Chief Security Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, has disclosed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity incident and is now investigating its impact. The U.S.-based education technology company is best known for developing Canvas, a widely used learning management system that helps schools, universities, and organizations manage coursework, assignments, and online learning. \u201cInstructure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}