{"id":241982,"date":"2026-05-08T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/laredo-college-affected-by-canvas-cybersecurity-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:40:09","slug":"laredo-college-affected-by-canvas-cybersecurity-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/laredo-college-affected-by-canvas-cybersecurity-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Laredo College affected by Canvas cybersecurity incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/local\/article\/laredo-college-canvas-cybersecurity-incident-22249897.php\">Laredo College affected by Canvas cybersecurity incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/local\/article\/laredo-college-canvas-cybersecurity-incident-22249897.php\">https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/local\/article\/laredo-college-canvas-cybersecurity-incident-22249897.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 18:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.lmtonline.com\">www.lmtonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laredo College was among institutions nationwide affected Thursday by a cybersecurity incident involving Canvas, the online learning platform used by the college.<\/p>\n<p>Canvas users attempting to access the platform instead encountered a ransom message from a hacker group, temporarily disrupting access and functionality throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Canvas parent company Instructure said the outage affected institutions across North America and globally. The cloud-based learning management system serves more than 9,000 institutions and more than 275 million users worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaredo College\u2019s web-based learning management system Canvas is currently experiencing a system outage affecting access and functionality,\u201d the college said in a statement Thursday afternoon. \u201cThe issue appears to be part of a broader incident involving Instructure, the provider of the Canvas Learning Management System, and is not isolated to the college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up statement Friday, the college confirmed the outage stemmed from a broader global cybersecurity incident impacting institutions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>While services appeared to gradually return Thursday evening, the college warned some users may continue experiencing delays as systems stabilize. Students, instructors and administrators were also asked to avoid using the platform temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, Laredo College has asked students and employees to refrain from using Canvas at this time while our Information Technology team continues testing system functionality and monitoring performance,\u201d the college said. \u201cWe will keep everyone informed through our official communication channels once we verify that the system is stable and safe to access again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The college said it remains in communication with Instructure and is continuing to receive updates from the company\u2019s technical and security teams as the situation develops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthorities are actively investigating the incident, and the college will continue to share&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/local\/article\/laredo-college-canvas-cybersecurity-incident-22249897.php\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laredo College affected by Canvas cybersecurity incident https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/local\/article\/laredo-college-canvas-cybersecurity-incident-22249897.php Publish Date: 2026-05-08 18:08:00 Source Domain: www.lmtonline.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/65\/74\/45\/30919032\/5\/rawImage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[96,57],"class_list":["post-241982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-hackerexploit","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241982"}],"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=241982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241984,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241982\/revisions\/241984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}