Nationwide cybersecurity attack leaves students across the country without access to Canvas
Nationwide cybersecurity attack leaves students across the country without access to Canvas
Publish Date: 2026-05-07 23:13:00
Source Domain: www.wbir.com
Canvas, the learning platform, has shut down nationwide due to a cybersecurity incident that has affected educational institutions across the country.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A cybersecurity incident with the Canvas learning platform vendor may have caused some users to see an unauthorized message after logging in.
Knox County Schools said its technology department is working with Instructure, the Canvas vendor, and has already deleted the message. KCS said it wasn’t the only school district affected.
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“We’re probably in the same position waiting as a lot of institutions of higher ed and other school systems are waiting at this point,” Jon Rysewyk, KCS Superintendent, said. “We’ve done everything we can on our end to be as secure as possible, so now we just kind of wait and see what our vendor will do.”
Instructure, the company that runs the Canvas learning management system used by more than 7,000 universities, K-12 districts and education ministries worldwide, disclosed the breach to affected institutions this week. The company confirmed names, email addresses, student ID numbers and private messages between users had been accessed before the breach was contained.
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack. On a dark web leak site, the group…
