# Canva listed as ransomware victim claim

Published: 2026-10-16 · Severity: elevated · Sectors: technology
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/91981b66-e1a6-5b52-985b-7d1a9042c665/canva-listed-as-ransomware-victim-claim

> A ransomware leak-site listing claims Canva was compromised, citing large numbers of exposed employee and user credentials.

This record from ransomware.live documents a claim by a threat actor group styled "THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS" naming Canva as a victim. The listing is sparse, providing only aggregate statistics: 176 compromised employee accounts, over 1.17 million compromised user credentials, 47 third-party employee credential exposures, and 119 external attack surface findings. No DNS records, leak sample content, technical indicators, or corroborating detail on the intrusion vector are provided in the article.

As this is a leak-site index entry rather than a technical writeup, defenders cannot currently verify how the alleged breach occurred, what systems were affected, or whether the claimed credential volumes are accurate — leak-site claims are not always validated and can be exaggerated or unverified. Canva users and administrators of Canva-integrated environments should monitor for credential-stuffing or account-takeover attempts using any credentials that may surface from this claim, and consider prompting password resets/MFA enforcement as a precaution.

No CVE, malware family, TTPs, or infrastructure indicators are disclosed in this listing. Given the lack of technical substantiation and the nature of the source (a victim-tracking index rather than primary incident reporting), this should be treated as an unconfirmed claim pending further corroboration from Canva or independent researchers.

## Mentioned in this report

- Threat actors: the seven deadly sins

1 detection for this report is in the app: the rules that match its indicators, the Sigma rules already converted to Splunk SPL, to Elastic where their fields map onto Elastic's integrations and to Microsoft Defender XDR KQL wherever Defender records the activity, and the YARA and Suricata. A new account gets three days of them free.

Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/Q2FudmFAVEhFIFNFVkVOIERFQURMWSBTSU5T

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