The developer of Canvas is apologizing for Thursday’s massive outage, but several class-action lawsuits are already seeking damages. Utah-based Instructure issued the apology after the incident halted final exams at numerous universities that use the online education platform for testing and assignments. The hacking group behind the outage, ShinyHunters, also stole data on potentially tens of millions of students across nearly 9,000 schools. Instructure says the hackers were booted out on Thursday and that Canvas is safe to use. However, court records show that at least 18 lawsuits in the US have been filed against the company since the incident. One of the class-action lawsuits, filed in Texas, alleges that “students suffered Sensitive Education Record injuries because Instructure has indicated that the data taken included messages among Canvas users, and Canvas messages often contain confidential student communications about illness, disability accommodations, pregnancy, mental ...