{"id":243907,"date":"2026-05-11T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-after-nationwide-ransomware-attack-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:45:09","slug":"wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-after-nationwide-ransomware-attack-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-after-nationwide-ransomware-attack-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake County schools restore Canvas access after nationwide ransomware attack :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/education\/wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-may-2026\/\">Wake County schools restore Canvas access after nationwide ransomware attack :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/education\/wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-may-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/education\/wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-may-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 16:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wake County Public School System on Monday has restored access to Canvas for students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>A message on the school district&#8217;s website states, &#8220;Staff and students should once again be able to access Canvas through WakeID once they reboot their devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Students and staff were unable to use Canvas last week after a cyber security incident. Canvas is used for lesson plans, school assignments, and communication between teachers and students.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, ransomware targeted Canvas. The attack impacted school districts and universities across the country. Wake County notified families and restricted access to the site on school-issued devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Education technology company Instructure said it restored Canvas on Friday, a day after the hack.<\/p>\n<p>Instructure briefly took Canvas down on May 7 but restored it on May 8 for all but the free version.<\/p>\n<p>Many North Carolina schools have waited to restore access to Canvas after the second breach on May 7 showed some system features had been taken over by the hackers, on top of data merely being accessed. An initial hack happened on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/shows.audiocdn.com\/s\/capitolbroadcasting\/wral-daily-download\/canvas-gets-hacked-what-a692b2\/embed\/standard-horizontal\/v2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"173\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Pay for leak&#8217; scams like Canvas breach are increasingly common, experts say<\/h2>\n<p>The scammers behind an attack of widely used education software are using an increasingly common &#8220;pay or leak&#8221; tactic among hackers to pressure victims to pay ransoms, though cybersecurity experts continue to discourage paying ransoms in spite of any new scare&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/education\/wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-may-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake County schools restore Canvas access after nationwide ransomware attack :: WRAL.com https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/education\/wake-county-schools-restore-canvas-access-may-2026\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/e330a934-1ced-46eb-bb17-f4275860c97e?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,57],"class_list":["post-243907","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\/243907"}],"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=243907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243909,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243907\/revisions\/243909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}