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Canvas Outage Halts Exams; Hackers Threaten 275 Million Users

5/11/2026

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Canvas Disrupts Exams

Students at dozens of U.S. campuses missed quizzes and saw finals postponed as the Canvas outage hit exam week.
Instructure’s Canvas learning platform suffered a nationwide outage, disrupting online coursework across U.S. universities.
ShinyHunters said it accessed data of 275 million users and threatened to leak messages unless paid.
Illinois, Harvard and MIT added channels and extended deadlines as the FBI warned of phishing.

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Canvas Outage

ShinyHunters, a loose group of U.S. and U.K. teens, threatened to leak data unless paid by May 12.
Instructure’s Canvas platform experienced a widespread outage, prompting temporary disabling of Free-For-Teacher accounts while the company works to restore service.
Alamo Colleges District said Canvas was operational Friday and missed coursework would not be penalized.
UTSA and University of Texas at San Antonio postponed Friday finals due to outage.

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Left coverage emphasized the FBI’s warning about phishing scams linked to the Canvas outage, which is not mentioned in the Right summary.
Left coverage highlighted the outage affecting dozens of campuses and causing missed quizzes, whereas Right coverage only references postponements at a single college district.

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Canvas Disrupts Exams

Students at dozens of U.S. campuses missed quizzes and saw finals postponed as the Canvas outage hit exam week.
Instructure’s Canvas learning platform suffered a nationwide outage, disrupting online coursework across U.S. universities.
ShinyHunters said it accessed data of 275 million users and threatened to leak messages unless paid.
Illinois, Harvard and MIT added channels and extended deadlines as the FBI warned of phishing.

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