Cyberattack hits Canvas system used by thousands of schools
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The nationwide Canvas outage that disrupted colleges and universities during finals week forced campuses across the country to improvise as faculty and students suddenly lost access to exams, assignments,
Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and universities, is back up after it was disabled for hours May 7.
A cyberattack by a group called ShinyHunters is impacting thousands of students in the New York area and across the country who use Canvas.
The Canvas system is back online after a cybersecurity breach impacted universities across the country, including the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. Last updated May 8 at 12:10 p.m. Northwestern’s Canvas site continues to direct to a scheduled maintenance message Friday morning after directing to a message from cybercrime group ShinyHunters on Thursday afternoon.
Canvas experienced a data breach that continues to impact students, teachers and staff nationwide.
Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its Canvas platform following a breach by hackers going by the name ShinyHunters.