{"id":241811,"date":"2026-05-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-cybersecurity-hack\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:40:10","slug":"central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-cybersecurity-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-cybersecurity-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Georgia school systems issue statements after Canvas cybersecurity hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/tech\/central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-hack\/93-b27daa2a-b596-41a6-933f-b05c86b0af79\">Central Georgia school systems issue statements after Canvas cybersecurity hack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/tech\/central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-hack\/93-b27daa2a-b596-41a6-933f-b05c86b0af79\">https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/tech\/central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-hack\/93-b27daa2a-b596-41a6-933f-b05c86b0af79<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 12:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.13wmaz.com\">www.13wmaz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canvas, a system used by several schools in the Central Georgia area, was hacked. Now, Central Georgia schools systems are sharing what they know.<\/p>\n<p>MACON, Ga. \u2014 Schools across the country received an alarming interruption, as a system thousands of them use went offline on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Canvas, described as a web-based learning management system, was hacked, the service announced on Thursday. The site is often used by teachers and educators to post assignments and use as a teaching tool. It can also store grades.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS News, 9,000 schools and universities use the program. A hacking group named ShinyHunters took credit for a breach at Instructure, the company behind Canvas.<\/p>\n<p>The program was down until Friday, which CBS News said directly impacted students&#8217; abilities to study for final exams and other tests set to take place on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Some Central Georgia school systems use Canvas, including both the Houston County and Bibb County School Systems. The pair issued statements.<\/p>\n<p>Houston County noted that, thankfully, the data hackers obtained from Canvas didn&#8217;t contain any personal information. Instructure told the school system that student passwords, date of birth, social security numbers, and financial information were not leaked.<\/p>\n<p>They did say that names, school email addresses, classroom assignments and any internal messages may have been leaked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This incident involves the third-party Canvas platform and not the internal technology infrastructure of the Houston County School District,&#8221; they said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>They said they&#8217;ll continue to provide further updates as they receive it.<\/p>\n<p>       &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/tech\/central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-hack\/93-b27daa2a-b596-41a6-933f-b05c86b0af79\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Georgia school systems issue statements after Canvas cybersecurity hack https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/tech\/central-georgia-school-systems-issue-statements-after-canvas-hack\/93-b27daa2a-b596-41a6-933f-b05c86b0af79 Publish Date: 2026-05-08 12:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.13wmaz.com\/assets\/WZDX\/images\/a06f0093-bbda-4dcd-bd53-1f7331f2e421\/20260508T153933\/a06f0093-bbda-4dcd-bd53-1f7331f2e421_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,57],"class_list":["post-241811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241813,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241811\/revisions\/241813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}