India, May 8 -- Canvas was reportedly down for thousands of users on Thursday and a message from Shinyhunters was allegedly displayed on the screen. As per Downdetector, around 2195 people faced issues at the time of writing.

Canvas by Instructure is a cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS) which is designed for educational institutions, schools, and businesses to manage online, hybrid, or in-person learning.

Several people complained about the outage and remarked that Canvas had gotten hacked. "Final exam just got canceled cuz canvas got hacked wtf. Can't tell if we are so up or so down." They shared a screenshot of the message visible to them.

"SHINY HUNTERS rooting your systems since 19 ;) ShinyHunters has breached Instructure...