The Breach Files — Episode 1: "Finals Week" (Pilot)

They were inside for seven days before anyone noticed. On April 30th, 2026, a hacker known as Phantom logged into a Canvas Free-For-Teacher account and pulled an API response he wasn't supposed to get. What he found: 275 million users across 8,800 institutions. Three point six five terabytes of data — names, student IDs, emails, and billions of private messages. Instructure thought they'd patched the breach on May 2nd. They hadn't. On May 7th — the first week of finals — Phantom made his move. The Breach Files is a fully dramatized audio drama reconstructing real cybercrime incidents from the inside out. Every voice is AI-generated. Every event is real. Episode 1 covers the ShinyHunters Canvas extortion: the discovery, the silent exfiltration, the finals week strike, the ransom payment, and the FBI advisory that confirmed the threat wasn't over. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized.Support the show