{"id":243346,"date":"2026-05-07T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/uw-students-locked-out-of-canvas-after-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:40:24","slug":"uw-students-locked-out-of-canvas-after-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/uw-students-locked-out-of-canvas-after-nationwide-cybersecurity-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"UW students locked out of Canvas after nationwide cybersecurity breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

UW students locked out of Canvas after nationwide cybersecurity breach<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-07 23:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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University of Wisconsin students were locked out of Canvas in the middle of finals week after a cybersecurity breach hit the platform nationwide.<\/p>\n

Canvas is a widely used app that allows students and teachers to access courses, submit assignments, and view grades. UW-Milwaukee student Clare Daily said she was on Canvas studying for her chemistry exam when access suddenly disappeared.<\/p>\n

“All of a sudden it just wasn’t loading. And then so I reloaded the page, and I got the little note from the hackers,” Daily said.<\/p>\n

Daily took a picture of the pop-up, which claimed a group called “ShinyHunters” breached the system and threatened to leak information. Students were later met with an error message blocking access to study materials.<\/p>\n

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The timing added stress ahead of exams.<\/p>\n

“I’m very nervous. I do not do great in this class, and just not having those materials did not help. I hope I did well,” Daily said.<\/p>\n

Other UW-Milwaukee students also lost access. Charles Rouhoff said the outage came at a difficult time.<\/p>\n

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“It was definitely a little stressful, because it was like, I got some stuff to do tomorrow night and tonight,” Rouhoff said.<\/p>\n

Fellow student Finley Kunz said the breach raised broader concerns.<\/p>\n

“I think it just raises a concern for, like, cybersecurity in general, because if they can hack Canvas and affect everybody, what else can they hack?” Kunz said.<\/p>\n

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The Universities of Wisconsin said its teams are working to address the issue. In a statement, spokesperson Mark Pitsch said:<\/p>\n

“The original breach, first reported May 1, affects the cloud-based system operated by Instructure, and affects all Universities of Wisconsin campuses,” Pitsch said.<\/p>\n

On May 6, Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said data taken in a Canvas breach…<\/p>\n

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