Cyber attack disrupts swath of US universities and schools
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On May 7, shortly after 4 p.m., the university’s Canvas page crashed due to a cybercrime group, ShinyHunters. The group hacked into Instructure, the creator and holder of Canvas learning systems. The hackers left a message regarding the nature of the attack and threatened to release students’ private information.
Hacking group claims access to data from nearly 9,000 schools and more than 275 million people
The ed-tech giant behind the Canvas learning management system is working with forensic experts to determine the full scope of the incident, though it seems passwords and financial information were not compromised.
Some students and families have more than just finals and tough homework assignments to deal with. A cyber attack has affected an online learning platform used by thousands of schools across the country,
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Cyberattack causes outage for Canvas system
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