{"id":241544,"date":"2026-05-08T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/usf-among-thousands-of-schools-impacted-by-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:50:09","slug":"usf-among-thousands-of-schools-impacted-by-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/usf-among-thousands-of-schools-impacted-by-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"USF among thousands of schools impacted by nationwide cybersecurity breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-hillsborough\/usf-among-thousands-of-schools-impacted-by-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach\">USF among thousands of schools impacted by nationwide cybersecurity breach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-hillsborough\/usf-among-thousands-of-schools-impacted-by-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach\">https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-hillsborough\/usf-among-thousands-of-schools-impacted-by-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 06:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tampabay28.com\">www.tampabay28.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A nationwide cybersecurity incident involving the company Instructure is impacting the University of South Florida (USF), the institution announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The outage is impacting Canvas, a web-based learning management system used by thousands of educational institutions across the country, which Instructure owns.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, USF said, temporarily, Canvas cannot be accessed. The university addressed the challenging timing of the outage, as students complete their final exams for the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FUSouthFlorida%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02JhMZQtLo67TNKbJ2eUhQZ8ruUD6DrTF6AFp6nQtUv4e5ckTfQkaip4QJED7ynPBAl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;USF understands the inconvenience this causes for our students, faculty and staff, especially at the end of a semester,&#8221; read a statement on the university website. &#8220;We recognize that students are still taking final exams, makeup exams or may still need to submit classwork through Canvas. 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