Canvas cybersecurity incident impacting Butte College, Chico State University | News
Canvas cybersecurity incident impacting Butte College, Chico State University | News
Publish Date: 2026-05-07 23:54:00
Source Domain: www.actionnewsnow.com
CALIFORNIA – A major security incident involving Canvas has been reported by colleges and universities across California.
Action News Now reached out to both Butte College and Chico State University on Thursday night regarding the incident to see if either campus had been impacted.
The following statement was given to Action News Now by Christian Gutierrez, the Public Relations Officers for Butte College:
“Instructure, the company that owns and operates Canvas, has taken the platform offline in response to an ongoing cybersecurity incident.
The incident has targeted Instructure, not our local Butte College systems.
We understand how disruptive this can be for students at this time in the semester. Students are encouraged to communicate with their instructors via email if they have questions about assignments. We have great confidence in our faculty, who have adapted before and may need to do so again as we close out the spring semester.
There is a website set up to monitor the outage.
https://cccsecuritycenter.org/updates/canvas.php”
The following statement was provided to Action News Now by Andrew Staples, Public Relations Director for University Communications:
“I can confirm that Canvas is down at Chico State, just as it is at every CSU and many institutions across the country.
Chico State’s Division of IT, in coordination with CSU systemwide officials, is actively investigating the situation and working to provide options for continuing operations as quickly as possible.”
The Security Incident
The California Community Colleges (CCC) Security Center says that starting on May 1, they began tracking a incident and have been actively monitoring all developments in the days that followed.
According to the CCC, several of their districts were notified of a global cybersecurity incident involving Canvas, and the Security Center issued a…
