{"id":237020,"date":"2026-05-13T02:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/us-govt-seeks-instructure-testimony-on-massive-canvas-cyberattack"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:21:37","slug":"us-govt-seeks-instructure-testimony-on-massive-canvas-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/us-govt-seeks-instructure-testimony-on-massive-canvas-cyberattack","title":{"rendered":"US govt seeks Instructure testimony on massive Canvas cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-govt-seeks-instructure-testimony-on-massive-canvas-cyberattack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is calling on Instructure executives to testify about two cyberattacks by the ShinyHunters extortion group that targeted the company\u2019s Canvas platform, allowing threat actors to steal student data and disrupt schools during final exams.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent Monday afternoon to Instructure CEO Steve Daly, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew R. Garbarino said the committee is investigating the massive breach at Instructure that impacts millions of students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee on Homeland Security (Committee) is investigating the concerning reports related to recent cybersecurity incidents affecting Instructure Holdings, Inc. and the tens of millions of students, educators, and administrators who rely on its Canvas learning management platform,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026.05.11-Homeland-to-Instructure-Holdings-Inc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reads the letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is calling on Instructure executives to testify about two cyberattacks by the ShinyHunters extortion group that targeted the company\u2019s Canvas platform, allowing threat actors to steal student data and disrupt schools during final exams. In a letter sent Monday afternoon to Instructure CEO Steve Daly, Homeland Security Committee [\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-237020","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\/237020","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=237020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}