Instructure’s Canvas is again at the center of a major cybersecurity disruption, with a breach tied to the ShinyHunters group forcing outages during final exam windows at colleges nationwide. Multiple institutions reported students receiving breach-related messages as threat actors claimed access to data from thousands of schools worldwide. The latest incident has also triggered operational workarounds: universities canceled or postponed final exams, issued grace periods for impacted coursework, and in some cases temporarily disabled Canvas while Instructure and external forensics teams investigated. The disruption is particularly sensitive as campuses move into end-of-semester grading and grade release. Instructure says it contained the broader compromise by revoking privileged credentials and access tokens, deploying patches, and restoring access after shutting Canvas offline to contain the incident. The company linked the exploit to Canvas Free-For-Teacher account issues, making account-layer vulnerabilities a key focus for risk management. The repetition matters for higher education, where Canvas is a system-of-record for grades, assignments, and course content. The incident echoes prior education software breaches and raises pressure on campus IT governance, incident response readiness, and vendor communication protocols.