Canvas hacked and down

tphb writes: In the middle of final's season, Instructure Canvas, the widely used learning management system for thousands of schools and universities such as Harvard, Colorado, and Georgia tech has been hacked and is currently down. Per a report from Bleeping Computer, the company reported a breach on May 1. Today, school landing pages were replaced by a message from the hacking consortium ShinyHunters claiming that they would release the data by May 12th unless a ransom is paid. Shortly thereafter all school landing sites went offline for "maintenance".