CHICAGO (WLS) — Universities and schools K-12 across the country, including the University of Illinois and Illinois State University, 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...Read More

School-related nightmares are something of a universal experience across cultures and generations. Who among us hasn’t experienced a stressful dream where we’re suddenly thrust back into high school or college, about to take a major exam we’ve not prepared for, or staring down the barrel of some other scholastic catastrophe? Students at many American universities...Read More

Photo: RNZ / Yiting Lin University students across New Zealand cannot submit assignments or communicate with tutors after their online learning system was hit by a global data hack. Names, email addresses, student ID numbers and messages between users could all be affected by the breach. Do you know more? Email luka.forman@rnz.co.nz Learning platform Canvas...Read More

A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity...Read More

Students attempting to access grades, study materials and quizzes were met instead with a message from a hacker on Thursday, as a widespread breach hit universities and high schools across the country, including the University of California and California State University systems. The attack targeted Canvas, a cloud-based digital hub for classrooms. UC and Cal...Read More

Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States. The widely used digital learning platform Canvas was put into “maintenance mode” on Thursday after...Read More

Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and universities into turmoil. Elizabeth Polo was in a creative writing class at the University of Maryland late Thursday afternoon when a classmate shouted,...Read More

Image: Push Square Update [Tue 19th May 2026, 2am]: Hours after going public about the hack, Sacred Symbols host Colin Moriarty has confirmed his account was retrieved. With the help of my friends and connections at Sony, I got my account back. I want to thank everyone for their kind words, advice, and direction! It...Read More

A cyberattack caused chaos for students at thousands of schools across the country, including many school districts, colleges and universities in Iowa.The attack Thursday targeted a system that schools and universities use to manage grades, assignments and lecture videos. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Instructure, the company behind the...Read More

This story is still receiving live updates, breaking story is below. This story is ongoing and will be updated as more information becomes available. Update 5/11/2026 6:52 p.m.: Instructure announced that it has reached an agreement with ShinyHunters and confirmed the return of all data. It is currently unknown the terms of the agreement or...Read More