New York —  A cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials — at a time when many are taking or preparing for final exams. Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms, has more than 30 million active users...Read More

A “security incident” impacting a popular classroom software caused issues for students at schools across the U.S. on Thursday, including Chicago-area universities like Northwestern and Dominican. Around 2:50 p.m., reports of issues with Canvas, a learning management system used by roughly 40% of higher education institutions in North America, began popping up on Down Detector....Read More

A web-based learning management system containing teachers’ and students’ data across North Carolina and the United States is back online after being breached, with one group claiming responsibility for the breach. On Thursday, a hacker group called “ShinyHunters” said it was responsible for a data breach of Instructure, which manages Canvas. The group said it...Read More

Update Canvas’ developer Instructure and OU IT’s alert page on May 8 confirmed access to Canvas systems have been restored. OU and Norman Public Schools are part of a worldwide Canvas data breach by a hacker group. On Thursday afternoon, OU students attempting to access Canvas, the university’s learning management system, were met with a...Read More

Wayne County Sheriff Raphael Washington addresses inappropriate photo Wayne County Sheriff Raphael Washington (WDIV) WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. – The Wayne County sheriff said his account was hacked after an “inappropriate” image was posted on his social media account. Wayne County Sheriff Raphael Washington said the image was posted on his personal Facebook account over the...Read More

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