International Cyber Attack Disrupts Swath of Universities and Schools

Canvas education platform back online after cyberattack

The hacker group ShinyHunters had sought to extort universities before the cyberattack on the Canvas education platform took place.

Several Canadian universities face security breach, student data leaked - National

University of Toronto has taken Quercus offline following a cyberattack on parent company Instructure , with hackers claiming to have stolen millions of users’ data.

Cyberattack Cripples UC, CSU Schools During Finals, Thousands Of Records Stolen

Universities across the nation, including schools in the UC and CSU system were attacked along with USC, Stanford and community colleges.

Cyber-attack on system widely used in US education disrupts final exams

Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic yearA system that thousands of schools and universities in the US use was offline on Thursday during a cyber-attack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology.Students quickly took to social media to ask if others were unable to access Canvas, with many panicking that the…

A cyberattack hit Canvas during finals and districts say some student info may be exposed

A coordinated cyberattack disrupted access to the Canvas learning platform this week, affecting tens of thousands of students across the United States and globally during a critical time in the school year.

Popular higher ed system ‘Canvas’ hacked, putting millions of students’ personal data at risk

A massive cyberattack that crippled the Canvas online learning platform as finals were getting underway at many universities could leave them scrambling for as long as a month — and expose the education software giant to major legal and financial fallout, cybersecurity experts told The Post.