"Canvas is used to manage grades, course notes, assignments, lecture videos and more. The hacking group posted online that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected, with billions of private messages and other records accessed, Connolly said. Screen shots Connolly provided showed that the group began threatening Sunday to leak the trove of data. By Friday, Instructure and Canvas had been removed from a dedicated leak site created by the ransomware group on the dark web to publish stolen data."
"Canvas went down Thursday at the worst possible time. Students quickly took to social media, with many panicking that they could no longer view course materials housed within the platform to study for their final exams. Teachers said they were having to find workarounds to help students study for exams and submit final assignments. And some schools, such as the University of Texas at San Antonio, announced they were pushing back finals scheduled for Friday in response to the outage."
"Instructure, the company behind Canvas, said in an update late Thursday that the system was available for most users. Canvas is used to manage grades, course notes, assignments, lecture videos and more. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft."
"Rich in digitized data, the nation's schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files that not long ago were committed to paper in locked cabinets. Past attacks have hit Minneapolis Public Schools and the Los Angeles Unified School District. Instructure has not posted a"
Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities to manage grades, course notes, assignments, and lecture videos, went down during a cyberattack. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach. Instructure reported that the system was available for most users after the outage. The group posted that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected and that billions of private messages and other records were accessed. Screenshots indicated threats to leak stolen data began earlier in the week. By Friday, Instructure and Canvas were removed from a dark web leak site. Schools and teachers used workarounds, and some postponed final exams due to students being unable to access course materials.
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