The attack was claimed by the hacking group ShinyHunters, which posted a warning message directly on some users’ Canvas dashboards.
Canvas, operated by parent company Instructure, is widely used by schools to manage grades, assignments, lecture videos, course materials, and communication between students and faculty.
The hacking group behind the breach said nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected and alleged that billions of private messages and records had been accessed. Andy Beshear overrides Republican legislature’s opposition with new universal pre-K planThe attack was claimed by the notorious hacking group ShinyHunters, which posted a warning message directly on some users’ Canvas dashboards Thursday afternoon.to reporting from the University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper.
“Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some ‘security patches. ’”, the hackers urged impacted schools to “negotiate a settlement,” adding: “Instructure didn’t fix all the vulnerabilities we have more. ” By around 4:20 p.m., the hackers’ message had been replaced with a notice from Canvas stating the platform was undergoing “scheduled maintenance. ” Later Thursday evening, the company announced the service had been restored “for most users.
” The outage disrupted academic schedules at schools across the country as universities scrambled to respond amid and ahead of final exams.
“This is being reported as a national-level cyber-security incident,” Tim Shie, the director of information technology at the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health, wrote in a notice to students and staff. “Hopefully we will have a resolution soon. ”students with exams scheduled for Friday would have a make-up day on Wednesday, while the University of Texas at San AntonioThe incident marks the second major breach claimed by ShinyHunters this month.
In a ransom note posted May 3 and shared by, the group alleged it had stolen data belonging to 275 million students and teachers, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and private user messages. ShinyHunters previously claimed responsibility for the 2024 hack of Ticketmaster, in which user data was allegedly stolen and later offered for sale on the dark web.
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