{"id":236750,"date":"2026-05-08T02:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/canvas-login-portals-hacked-in-mass-shinyhunters-extortion-campaign"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:10:37","slug":"canvas-login-portals-hacked-in-mass-shinyhunters-extortion-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/canvas-login-portals-hacked-in-mass-shinyhunters-extortion-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Canvas login portals hacked in mass ShinyHunters extortion campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canvas-login-portals-hacked-in-mass-shinyhunters-extortion-campaign.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting a vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>The defacements, which were visible for roughly 30 minutes before being taken offline, displayed a message from ShinyHunters claiming responsibility for the earlier Instructure breach and threatening to leak stolen data if a ransom is not paid.<\/p>\n<p>The message warns that Instructure and schools have until May 12 to contact them to negotiate a ransom, or students\u2019 data will be leaked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting a vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and universities. The defacements, which were visible for roughly 30 minutes before being taken offline, displayed a message from ShinyHunters claiming responsibility for the earlier Instructure breach and threatening to [\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-236750","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\/236750","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=236750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}