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Instructure: Cybersecurity Incident
Instructure (Canvas LMS provider) suffered the largest educational data breach on record in May 2026, impacting 275 million students, teachers, and staff across approximately 9,000 education institutions.
Source: EdTech Magazine
- Who
- Instructure · EdTech · USA
- What happened
- Instructure (Canvas LMS provider) suffered the largest educational data breach on record in May 2026, impacting 275 million students, teachers, and staff across approximately 9,000 education institutions.
- When
- 2026-06-25
- Source
- EdTech Magazine
Market context: MitchelLake's Talent Market Index sits at 97.6 (Neutral), down 3.4 on the prior month; Americas hiring signal is running easing (-15.6pts).
Instructure: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the EdTech median of 1 across 17 tracked companies; 3 tracked across 139 days.
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