ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE BACK AT THE SPEEDWAY. LOCAL SCHOOL LEADERS ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT JUST HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE AFTER HACKERS INFILTRATED A LEARNING SYSTEM USED BY MOST CAMPUSES. HERE. A GROUP CLAIMED IT BREACHED THE CAMPUS SYSTEM AND THREATENED TO LEAK THE DATA. WESH 2’S BOB HAZEN REPORTS MANY LOCAL DISTRICTS ARE KEEPING...Read More
Shortly after 4 p.m., Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, was hacked by ShinyHunters, a criminal hacker and extortion group. The Canvas webpage for many schools, including Brown, was placed under ransom along with some student data held on the platform. According to a ransom note posted on the Canvas website, ShinyHunters stated that universities...Read More
Education institutions around the country are scrambling to respond to a global data breach that has affected Australian universities, TAFE and public schools in at least two states. Almost 9,000 institutions worldwide are clients of the cloud-based Canvas learning management system, developed by American company Instructure, which was subjected to the hack. Among providers confirmed...Read More
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) are among thousands of learning institutions around the world that...Read More
Listen to this article Estimated 6 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The federal government will pay $8.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving tens of thousands of Canadians whose sensitive information...Read More
This story is developing and will continue to be updated. Students were unable to access Canvas on Thursday afternoon after cybercrime group ShinyHunters shut down Penn’s access to the interface. The May 7 data breach comes after ShinyHunters — notorious in the hacking community for large-scale data breaches — claimed responsibility for breaching Instructure, the...Read More
What does a Howard County eighth-grader have in common with college students at Harvard or Johns Hopkins?They couldn’t get into Canvas because of hacking.| MORE: What we know about the Canvas hack impacting thousands of schoolsStudents in the Howard County Public Schools System who went to their grades on Canvas were still getting a big...Read More
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Universities and schools K-12 across the country, including in the Philadelphia area, have been impacted by a massive data breach targeting a system widely used by students and faculty. The breach involves Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a web-based learning management system used daily by educators and students for coursework, assignments...Read More
Hundreds of thousands of students have been left unable to access schoolwork or submit assessments, with some receiving ransom messages following a global cybersecurity hack. On Thursday, universities, TAFEs and public schools in at least two states were left scrambling to respond to the global breach of the cloud-based Canvas learning management system, which was...Read More
Universities across America hastily made new schedules on Friday in the wake of a massive cyberattack that has thrown final exam calendars and basic classroom activities into chaos. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The academic anarchy was touched off Thursday afternoon when operators of online...Read More
