UK Cybercrime Journal: British Universities Struck by ShinyHunters Before Exam Season (opens in new tab)

What Happened:On 3 May 2026, ShinyHunters, the English-speaking adolescent cybercrime collective, claimed they breached Instructure by listing them on their Tor data leak site.Instructure is a US-based software provider behind the widely adopted Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). ShinyHunters reportedly exfiltrated 3.65 terabytes of data, spanning 275 million global records from up to 9,000 institutions, before posting extortion messages across university login portals demanding Bitcoin...