{"id":1012,"date":"2026-05-05T08:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:59:08","slug":"instructure-hacker-claims-data-theft-from-8800-schools-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/instructure-hacker-claims-data-theft-from-8800-schools-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructure hacker claims data theft from 8,800 schools, universities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hacker behind a breach at education technology giant Instructure claims to have stolen 280 million records tied to students and staff from 8,809 colleges, school districts, and online education platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instructure is a cloud-based education technology company best known for its Canvas learning management system, which schools and universities use to manage coursework, assignments, grading, and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday, Instructure disclosed that it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/edu-tech-firm-instructure-discloses-cyber-incident-probes-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigating a cyberattack<\/a>&nbsp;and later revealed that it had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/instructure-confirms-data-breach-shinyhunters-claims-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suffered a data breach<\/a>, during which users&#8217; names, email addresses, and private messages were exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/instructure-hacker-claims-data-theft-from-8800-schools-universities\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/instructure-hacker-claims-data-theft-from-8-800-schools-universities\/\">Instructure hacker claims data theft from 8,800 schools, universities<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Instructure hacker claims data theft from 8,800 schools, universities<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker behind a breach at education technology giant Instructure claims to have stolen 280 million records tied to students and staff from 8,809 colleges, school districts, and online education platforms. Instructure is a cloud-based education technology company best known for its Canvas learning management system, which schools and universities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datalek","tag-72","tag-shinyhunters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}