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

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