Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.

By Claire Bond Potter May 13, 2026 · The Chronicle of Higher Education ·

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The Review | Opinion

Last Thursday, the inevitable happened. In the middle of finals at many colleges, a hacking group called ShinyHunters breached the security of Canvas, a widely used learning-management system (LMS), and held its data for ransom. Instructure, the company behind Canvas, successfully

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About the Author

Claire Bond Potter is a professor emeritus of history at the New School for Social Research, author of the Political Junkie Substack, and creator of Why Now?, a political-history podcast.