Shinyhunters hacker group has compromised Canvas, the learning management system used by over 8,000 schools and universities. The hackers are demanding ransom by May 12, or data will be released. A ...

Canvas, a learning management platform, is back online after being down for hours on May 7 following a cyberattack. Hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach at Instructure, and ...

Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and universities, was hacked and disabled for hours as students attempted to access their grades and other class ...

Sara Tenenbaum is the Senior Digital Producer for CBS News Chicago, overseeing editorial operations and social media, and covering breaking, local and community news. A nationwide Canvas outage has ...

Most users regained access to the platform hours after a hacking group said it had attacked Canvas’s parent company and breached 275 million people’s data. By Hannah Ziegler Canvas, a platform used by ...

The Widener Library on the Harvard Campus in Cambridge, Mass., on June 4, 2025. Reporter It’s finals season across many U.S. schools and universities, but for some students and teachers, the already ...

A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final ...

A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group. A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message ...

Canvas, one of the most widely used education apps, said it had restored services after pulling the plug in the middle of finals week at many colleges to deal with a cybersecurity incident. From ...

LOS ANGELES, May 7 (Reuters) - Education tool Canvas, used by schools, colleges and universities for grades and other class materials, was hacked, blocking students from accessing the application, ...

Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the ...