What the Canvas breach tells us about the state of education security

### Executive summary Instructure's Canvas was breached by the criminal group ShinyHunters, who accessed cloud resources and a Salesforce instance to extract names, emails, student IDs and private messages impacting thousands of educational institutions; the report outlines the attack vectors (API-based extraction, compromised credentials, insufficient MFA) and provides immediate mitigation steps and long-term security recommendations for education organizations.