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Instructure reaches ‘agreement’ with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an “agreement” with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online.
The company says over 30 million educators and students use its Canvas platform across more than 8,000 schools and universities worldwide.
In a Tuesday statement, Instructure said the cybercrime gang also returned the stolen data and provided shred logs confirming its destruction.
“We understand how unsettling situations like this can be, and protecting our community remains our top priority. With that responsibility in mind, Instructure reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident,” it said.
“We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise. This agreement covers all impacted Instructure customers, and there is no need for individual customers to attempt to engage with the unauthorized actor.”
However, as the FBI has repeatedly warned, paying a ransom does not guarantee that threat actors will not also sell the stolen data to other cybercriminals or attempt to extort the victims again.
Instructure added that its leadership will share more information regarding the incident and the measures it has taken to secure its systems against future breach attempts in a May 13 webinar.
ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach and said they stole more than 3.6TB of uncompressed data, after the company confirmed that data had been stolen in the cyberattack.
Instructure confirmed to BleepingComputer that ShinyHunters exploited a security issue in the Free-for-Teacher environment, a free, limited version of Canvas LMS for individual educators, to steal the data.
The cybercrime group also hacked Instructure again on May 7, using the same vulnerability as in the initial intrusion, to deface Canvas login portals and leave an extortion message, warning that the company and its customers had until May 12 to enter negotiations to pay a ransom.
Although the company didn’t share further details on the breach and defacements, BleepingComputer has learned that the attacker exploited multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.
ShinyHunters injected malicious JavaScript to exploit Canvas XSS flaws in user-generated content features, which allowed them to obtain authenticated admin sessions and perform privileged actions.
“The unauthorized actor made changes to the pages that appeared when some students and teachers were logged in through Canvas,” Instructure said. “Canvas has been restored and is fully back online and available for use. [..] We recommend that customers continue normal monitoring of their Canvas environments, integrations, and administrative activity.”
Since then, the company has temporarily shut down Free-For-Teacher accounts and said that it’s working to resolve these security issues to prevent future incidents.
In September 2025, Instructure disclosed another breach, also claimed by ShinyHunters, that allowed attackers to access data in the edtech giant’s Salesforce instance.
Other breaches recently claimed by ShinyHunters include Google, Cisco, PornHub, the European Commission, online dating giant Match Group, Rockstar Games, home security giant ADT, video service Vimeo, edtech giant McGraw-Hill, medical device maker Medtronic, and Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara.
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The Bahamas goes to polls in three-way battle with immigration a key issue | Bahamas
Voters in the Bahamas head to the polls on Tuesday in a hotly contested general election featuring high-profile candidates such as the former basketball champion Rick Fox.
Voters in the Caribbean archipelago are divided over concerns about immigration, especially from neighbouring Haiti, and the rising cost of living, with significant spikes in gas prices caused by war in the Middle East.
A record of more than 200,000 people have registered to vote in 41 constituencies as the governing Progressive Liberal party (PLP), the opposition Free National Movement (FNM) and the Coalition of Independents (COI) battle for control of parliament.
While third parties have historically struggled to gain parliamentary seats in the Bahamas, political observers are closely watching whether the COI, which has a strong social media presence, can build on the nearly 8,000 votes it secured in the 2021 election.
Philip ‘Brave’ Davis is seeking a second term as prime minister for the PLP.
Davis, 74, has framed the election as a choice between stability and uncertainty, arguing his administration has guided the country through post-pandemic recovery and record tourism growth.
Christopher Curry, an associate professor of history at the University of the Bahamas, said Davis had focused on the argument that changing parties while plans from 2021 were still in progress would destabilise the country.
Curry expects the PLP to hold on to power but said the FNM had experienced some success over the past two weeks by focusing on immigration. He added: “Switching their campaigning slogan from ‘We work for you not for the few’ to ‘Save our Sovereignty (SOS)’, I think created more traction with Bahamian people.
“I hate to say it, but there tends to be an underlying sort of xenophobia that many Bahamians gravitate toward and so I think the opposition in a way is playing on that.”
The FNM’s assistant treasurer, Carlyle Bethel, accused the government of failing to deal with illegal immigration.
He said: “The FNM has made it clear that anybody that enters the country illegally … will never have a pathway to citizenship. If you want to become a citizen there is a way to apply. The idea that you can break the law, that you can sneak in, and then demand citizenship down the line, we are saying is not right and will not be tolerated.”
Bethel said the FNM would also take action to address the rising cost of living.
He added: “In the Bahamas … at least in New Providence, a gallon of gas is up to about $7. Our currency is pegged one to one to the US dollar. So, when you consider Americans are upset about a gallon of gas being three or four dollars, just times that by two.”
Bethel also defended Fox, a three-time NBA champion and FNM candidate, who lunged at a critic during an argument on the campaign trail.
“I make no apology for [Fox’s] level of passion and enthusiasm … [and] level of commitment,” Bethel said. “He’s always been committed to this country. He’s always been giving back, whether it’s in basketball, whether it’s in community, whether it’s rebuilding after [Hurricane] Dorian.”
Davin Beneby, 33, who works in energy and transport, said sticking with the PLP was the best option: “I’ve seen where the economy has grown since the pandemic. I’ve seen the unemployment rate actually go down.”
But T Johnson, a 46-year-old FNM supporter, said she felt her party had a better record of moving the country forward and had made university education “almost free of charge” when in power.
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New survey shows AOC’s $30 minimum wage push opposed by economists
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An ambitious proposal backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to raise the federal minimum wage to as high as $30 an hour is drawing red flags from economists who warn the proposal could backfire on the people it’s meant to help.
A new survey published by the Employment Policies Institute found broad skepticism among U.S. economists toward steep minimum wage hikes, with many warning the policy could lead to unintended ripple effects like job losses for low-wage workers and higher prices for all Americans.
Specifically, these economists oppose proposals that push the minimum wage to more than $20 an hour.
The findings come as progressive lawmakers, including Ocasio-Cortez, push for higher federal wage mandates to address rising costs of living. The federal minimum wage has not been adjusted since 2009 despite an annual average inflation rate of 2.57%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a news conference on April 29, 2026 outside the U.S. Capitol about raising the federal minimum wage. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
“We surveyed more than 160 American economists and for proposals over $20 an hour, 96% said they oppose it,” Employment Policies Institute research director Rebekah Paxton told Fox News Digital.
The findings reflect broader resistance to steep minimum wage hikes, with nearly three-quarters of economists opposing a $15 wage and opposition increasing sharply at higher proposed levels.
Paxton said this view cuts across political lines.
“The economists we surveyed spanned the political spectrum — Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and those who didn’t identify with a party — but they broadly agree that raising the minimum wage above $20 an hour would be harmful for employees, businesses and American consumers,” she said.
Economists pointed to a range of potential downsides for raising the minimum wage from the current $7.25 hourly rate, particularly for lower-skilled workers. A majority said higher minimum wages would likely reduce job opportunities for young people, with up to 95% predicting fewer youth jobs at wage levels above $20.
Industries with thinner margins could be especially vulnerable.
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Economists warn small businesses and certain industries could feel the impact of higher minimum wage mandates most acutely. (iStock)
“Small businesses would likely have the hardest time adapting, but certain industries with tighter profit margins , like hospitality and restaurants, could be hit particularly hard,” Paxton said. “Economists told us it would reduce jobs and make it more difficult for those businesses to operate.”
Many respondents also warned businesses would react to rising labor costs by turning to automation. At higher wage levels, as many as 97% of economists said companies would replace tasks traditionally done by workers with robotic and other automatic means.
The survey highlighted concerns about inflation and the cost of living, with a majority of economists claiming higher minimum wages would increase prices of goods and services, with up to 84% predicting increased costs for consumers if minimum wages were raised to more than $20 an hour.
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Economists warn aggressive wage hikes could reshape the job market in unexpected ways. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“A lot of lawmakers and activists say affordability is the reason for proposing these high minimum wage hikes,” Paxton said. “But what we’re finding is that not only could this cost jobs and reduce hours, it could also increase automation and raise the cost of living.”
Small businesses, in particular, may struggle to absorb those costs. Nearly all economists surveyed, up to 98%, said it would become harder for small businesses to stay afloat under higher wage mandates.
Perhaps most notably, many economists questioned whether raising the minimum wage would achieve its intended goal.
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“We’re seeing economists are generally concerned about whether this policy actually delivers meaningful wage benefits,” Paxton said, pointing instead to alternatives like earned income tax credits and other support programs that supplement wages without placing the full burden on employers.
Supporters argue higher wages are necessary to keep up with inflation and rising living costs. But the survey raises fresh doubts about whether the policy could end up doing more harm than good.
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Banks resume bullion imports after month-long halt over 3% levy
Banks have resumed gold and silver imports after a hiatus that stretched for more than a month by agreeing to pay a 3% customs levy that earlier prompted lenders to halt shipments, trade and government sources told. reuters.
The resumption is expected to boost the country’s gold imports, widen the trade deficit and put more pressure on the rupee, which is among Asia’s worst-performing currencies this year.
Worried about mounting pressure on India’s balance of payments and the rupee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to avoid buying gold for a year to help preserve the country’s foreign exchange reserves.
Stronger demand from India, the world’s second-largest gold buyer after China, could also support global gold and silver prices and help local jewelers replenish their inventories.
“We paid a 3% integrated goods and services tax (IGST) at customs to clear gold and silver shipments,” said the head of the bullion desk at a Mumbai-based private bank.
“Banks waited for more than a month for the government to issue an order that annually exempts them from paying the 3% IGST. But as the government signaled it wanted to curb gold imports, banks gave up hope.”
Banks, which import most of India’s refined gold, halted shipments at the start of the new financial year on April 1 after customs authorities began demanding IGST on the metal. When India adopted the IGST regime in 2017, gold-importing banks were exempted from paying the 3% levy.
Banks have been clearing gold and silver shipments from customs in recent days, a government official said, declining to be named as he was not authorized to speak to the media. The trade sources were also not allowed to speak publicly.
Banks have cleared about 9 metric tons of gold and 34 metric tons of silver so far in May after paying the IGST, the official said.
Supply has improved due to bank imports, but demand remains weak, leaving gold trading at a discount, said Chirag Thakkar, chief executive of bullion importer Amrapali Group Gujarat.
Dealers in India offered discounts of up to $17 an ounce over official domestic prices this week, inclusive of 6% import and 3% sales levies.
India’s gold imports in April are likely to have fallen to a near 30-year low of about 15 metric tons, as banks halted shipments after customs authorities began demanding the IGST.
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Labour MP in seat eyed by Burnham allies says she will not stand aside | Labour
Andy Burnham’s hopes of returning to Westminster were dealt a blow on Tuesday as the Merseyside MP whose seat had been named by key allies for a potential byelection said she would not stand down and backed Keir Starmer to stay in office.
Marie Rimmer, the MP for St Helens South and Whiston, said the mayor of Greater Manchester had not spoken to her “in years” – and that her priority was to avoid the chaos of a leadership contest.
Allies of Burnham, who hopes to seek to replace Starmer as prime minister, had said Rimmer’s seat was one possibly in contention for him to fight a byelection.
But Rimmer, who has been an MP since 2015, said: “I’m not planning to stand down for anybody. I was selected by my constituency party and it’s my constituency party who decides who stands. I’ve not spoken to Andy Burnham in years and neither has he spoken to me.”
Rimmer, 78, said she had experienced ill health but had not stopped working and had not held any conversations with the Labour party about her future.
She said she did not believe Starmer should stand down as prime minister. “I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. It’s chaos. We will end up looking like the Tories. There’s far too much going on in the world today. It’s just a nonsense to me, panic stations like this.”
She said the speculation she could give up her seat for Burnham had been “annoying because there’s a lot going on”. The last time she spoke to Burnham was in the last general election campaign, she said, adding that they “get on well”. However, allies of Burnham said the two had in fact spoken recently.
More than 70 MPs have called on Starmer to quit as prime minister after dire local and devolved election results in England, Scotland and Wales, many of them supporters of Burnham who have published letters calling for him to set out a timetable for an “orderly transition” that would let the mayor seek a seat.
Sources on Labour’s ruling national executive committee, which blocked the Greater Manchester mayor from standing in the Gorton and Denton byelection in January, suggested they could take a different course next time.
“The officers’ group could move if there was clearly a question mark over political authority. But there would have to be a byelection called first before we know whether that is the case,” one said. Another said “things could move” should Starmer clearly not have support to continue as PM.
Supporters of Wes Streeting have also begun calling for the prime minister to go and oversee a “swift” transition that would favour the health secretary if Burnham cannot find a seat where he could stand in a byelection.
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Nebraska, West Virginia and New Jersey hold key Tuesday primaries in 2026
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Tuesday is primary day in red-leaning Nebraska, where party showdowns for the House and Senate will tee up general election matchups in the battle for Congress.
Meanwhile, in GOP-dominated West Virginia, establishment Sen. Shelley Moore Capito faces five Republican primary challenges, but enjoys the backing of President Donald Trump.
And in New Jersey, Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, who grabbed national attention last year as he was arrested during an anti-ICE protest outside a federal immigration detention center, is facing seven challengers as he seeks a fourth term steering the Garden State’s largest city.
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Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka is seeing re-election on Tuesday for a fourth term steering the Garden State’s largest city (Fox News)
Tuesday’s contests come with less than six months to go until the 2026 midterm elections, when Republicans aim to hold their razor-thin House and slim Senate majorities, and Democrats hope to ride a blue wave to escape the political wilderness.
Here’s a closer look at Tuesday’s ballot box showdowns.
Nebraska
Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts, who was appointed in 2023 to replace Ben Sasse, and who won a 2024 special election to fill out the final two years of Sasse’s term, is running for a full six-year term. Ricketts faces four primary challengers on Tuesday, but is expected to capture his party’s nomination.
Ricketts is already eyeing the general election, when he’ll face off against independent candidate Dan Osborn, the industrial mechanic and military veteran who gave Republican Sen. Deb Fischer a scare in her 2024 re-election.
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Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is facing four Republican primary challengers as he seeks a full six-year term as senator. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency)
Even though the Nebraska Democratic Party supports Osborn in the general election, community college instructor Cindy Burbank and pastor Bill Forbes are running for the Democrats’ nomination in the primary.
Both candidates were last-minute filers, and some Nebraska Democratic leaders alleged that Forbes jumped into the race so that a Democrat would be on the fall ballot and siphon votes away from Osborn to help Ricketts.
Forbes has denied the claims.
Burbank says she jumped into the race to keep Forbes off the ballot in November.
In the gubernatorial primary, GOP Gov. Jim Pillen faces five nomination challengers. Former state Sen. Lynne Walz and perennial candidate Larry Marvin face off for the Democratic nomination.
The primary in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, an Omaha-based competitive seat, is grabbing national attention, in the race to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Don Bacon. The seat is a top target for Democrats as they try to retake the House.
Omaha City Councilmember Brinker Harding is unopposed for the Republican nomination.
Two major Democrats, state Sen. John Cavanaugh and Denise Powell, are vying for their party’s congressional nomination.
Nebraska is the only state in the nation, along with Maine, to split their electoral votes in presidential elections. And the electoral vote up for grabs in Nebraska’s 2nd District, known as the ‘blue dot,’ was carried by then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Powell argues that if Cavanaugh wins the primary and then the general election, and steps down from his state Senate seat, GOP Gov. Pillen would replace him with a Republican, which could potentially lead to the GOP-dominated legislature scrapping the ‘blue dot’ and making Nebraska’s electoral votes winner-take-all.
West Virginia
Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey is not on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary, but the first-term governor’s clout in state politics is on the line, as the governor is targeting several GOP state lawmakers running for re-election.
Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey is not on the ballot but his political clout will be tested in Republican state legislative primaries on Tuesday. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, in the U.S. Senate race, five Democrats are seeking their party’s nomination.
In Charleston, West Virginia‘s capital city, Democratic Mayor Amy Goodwin faces a primary challenge as she seeks a third term. Republican Brian Hunt is unopposed for the Republican nomination.
New Jersey
While Baraka is a Democrat, mayoral elections in Newark are technically nonpartisan.
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If no candidate tops 50% of the vote, a runoff between Tuesday’s top two finishers will be held in early June.
The charges against Baraka were dropped, and he later ran for governor, coming in second to then-Rep. Mikie Sherrill in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Sherrill ended up winning election as New Jersey governor.
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FleetWave outage takes another turn. Chevin confirms crooks accessed customer data
A month after bringing systems back online, SaaS vendor tells customers attackers potentially walked off with operational data, contact details, and payroll numbers
A month after Chevin Fleet Solutions declared its FleetWave outage contained and systems restored, the company has now admitted that attackers accessed customer databases and potentially acquired operational and personal data.
Chevin confirmed the breach in an email to customers, seen by The Register, marking the first time it has acknowledged that data was accessed during the April incident that knocked parts of web-based software offline across the UK and US.
At the time, Chevin said it had pulled parts of its Azure-hosted FleetWave tool offline while outside cybersecurity specialists investigated. Status pages showed a “major outage” across the UK and US, but beyond that, customers got little detail on what had happened or whether any data had been caught up in it.
Now it turns out that at least some customer databases were indeed affected by the breach.
According to the email, Chevin’s forensic investigation determined that an “unauthorized third-party accessed and potentially acquired certain data” from customer databases backed up on April 3, 2026.
The exposed information varies depending on how customers configured FleetWave, but includes operational fleet management data alongside personal information such as names, contact details, and payroll numbers.
It’s unclear how many individuals and organizations have been affected. The Register’s asked for comment and a spokesperson told us:
“Chevin recently experienced a cybersecurity incident affecting certain systems. We immediately took steps to contain the incident, engaged with law enforcement and external cybersecurity experts, and have since restored impacted services.
“Following consultation with external cybersecurity forensic experts, we are confident our systems have been secured. Our customers are our top priority, and we are working directly with those impacted.”
The company insists that the stolen information does not generally include any of the higher-risk categories under GDPR, such as financial information, payment card details, passport data, or special category data.
Chevin also claims in its email to customers that it has taken steps to stop the information from being “published, sold, or misused,” and says ongoing dark web monitoring has not identified evidence of the data circulating online.
One Chevin customer told The Register their organization was unlikely to have been the intended ransomware target due to its size, suggesting the breach may have been aimed elsewhere. The customer also questioned why Chevin appeared confident enough to restore systems and close out forensic work before later returning with confirmation that data had in fact been accessed.
The customer said the mention of payroll numbers came as a surprise because their company does not use FleetWave for payroll data, raising questions about how tailored the notification really was.
Chevin is now offering affected customers a one-time download of their SQL database and a spreadsheet summarizing potentially exposed records through a secure portal.
In the email, signed by CEO Gary Thompson, Chevin says it is “confident that the incident has been contained” and FleetWave systems are now “safe and secure for customers.” ®
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Starmer tells cabinet he will not quit without leadership challenge | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer has told his cabinet he will not resign as prime minister, saying the threshold for a leadership challenge has not been met.
In comments that effectively dared the health secretary, Wes Streeting, to launch a challenge against him, Starmer said he intended to get on with governing.
“As I said yesterday, I take responsibility for these election results and I take responsibility for delivering the change we promised,” he told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.
“The past 48 hours have been destabilising for government and that has a real economic cost for our country and for families. The Labour party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered.
“The country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a cabinet.”
Starmer convened the cabinet as at least 10 more MPs called on the prime minister to set a timetable to depart, taking the total to more than 80. The communities minister Miatta Fahnbulleh became the first minister to quit, on Tuesday morning, with more resignations expected.
Darren Jones, Starmer’s chief secretary, said the prime minister was “listening to colleagues” who were asking him to set out a timetable for departure but would make his own decisions about the way forward.
He warned the prime minister’s rivals that it was a “gruelling” job. “Anybody who thinks that they can just walk into the job of prime minister and, like the second coming of the messiah, fix all of our problems probably hasn’t really thought carefully enough about how difficult it is,” he said.
Fahnbulleh, who is close to the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, said she would “urge the prime minister to do the right thing for the country and the party and set a timetable for an orderly transition”. The MP for Peckham said the message on the doorsteps at local elections was that the prime minister had “lost the trust and the confidence of the public”.
The Guardian understands that four senior cabinet ministers – Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, John Healey, the defence secretary, and the deputy prime minister, David Lammy – were among those who spoke to Starmer on Monday.
Some told the prime minister he should oversee an orderly transition of power after crushing election defeats risked ringing the death knell on his premiership.
Others discussed with Starmer how they should take a “responsible, dignified, orderly” approach to what may follow. Several others, including Richard Hermer and Steve Reed, urged him to fight on.
Overnight, some Labour MPs began to voice public support for the prime minister. One, Neil Coyle, said he was “horrified at the elephant trap colleagues are falling into. Those who claimed council elections were about Keir had nothing to offer local communities.”
Another, Nick Smith, said. “A global security crisis and its economic impact on our country means we need political stability. Unity is strength.”
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