Canvas Outage a Wake-up Call to Educators - The Iola Register

Instructure Canvas Cyberattack Exposes 275M Records Across US Schools, Including HBCUs

Instructure Inc., the parent company behind academic portal Canvas, is facing scrutiny following a cyberattack claimed by prominent hacker group ShinyHunters that disrupted schools and universities across the United States during final exams, including several Historically Black Colleges and Universities. According to Instructure’s incident response webpage, the first breach occurred on April 29, 2026, followed by a second incident on May 7, whe…

Canvas outage a wake-up call to educators - The Iola Register

Hackers crashed the education platform, sending high schools and colleges nationwide into a panic Maybe you heard the yelps echoing from the hallways of Kansas schools last week as a software outage essentially paused academic work. No quizzes. No assignments. No grading. No video tutorials. And no sense of when it would end.  Canvas, a so-called learning management system, serves as the classroom spinal cord for thousands of schools nationwide,…

GRCC among institutions affected by Canvas cybersecurity incident

Grand Rapids Community College was among the institutions affected by a recent cybersecurity incident involving Instructure, the parent company of Canvas. Instructure confirms that usernames, email addresses, course names, enrollment information, and messages were involved in the security incident.  Canvas is the learning management system GRCC began using in the fall of 2025, making the […]