Cyberattack on Canvas system causes chaos for students at thousands of . . . A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday during a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft Instructure, the company
Canvas Online Learning Platform Disabled After Breach by Hackers Most users had regained access to the software late Thursday, hours after a hacking group said it had attacked Canvas’s parent company and gained access to more than 275 million people’s data
Duke among 9,000 schools affected by Canvas cyberattack ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen information from 275 million students and teachers, consisting of “certain identifying information of users … such as names, email addresses, and student ID
Canvas Hacked: Bay Area Colleges Disrupted By Global Cyberattack . . . - KQED Students at colleges across the Bay Area found themselves locked out of a widely used learning platform Thursday after hackers seized the data of an educational technology company and demanded a ransom to prevent its release UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Stanford and the Peralta
BREAKING: Canvas hacked for a second time, student’s personal . . . The hacker group ShinyHunters hacked Canvas for a second time, claiming to have stolen more than 3 65TB of personal student data from over 9,000 schools The group said that if Instructure, the company that owns and operates Canvas, does not respond to their ransom demands by Tuesday all the data will be leaked publicly