Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the ...

Instructure reached a deal with the Canvas hackers after they claimed to have stolen data tied to nearly 9,000 schools and 275 million people. Hackers behind the Canvas breach have reached a deal with ...

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, ...

Canvas, an online learning platform used by several Massachusetts colleges, was hacked and disabled for hours on Thursday, May 7. Instructure, Canvas' parent company, alerted users to a security ...

Instructure Canvas Cyber Hack: A massive cyber hack on Thursday (May 8, 2026) left universities including Harvard, Stanford and thousands of other institutions scrambling as the widespread outage, ...

A hacker group stole data from more than 9,000 schools using an exploit in Instructure's service. Now the House Homeland Security Committee is getting involved. Tyler is a writer for CNET covering ...

The company at the centre of a cyber attack involving online learning platform Canvas says it has reached an "agreement" with the hackers responsible, with Instructure's CEO offering an apology to ...

The ShinyHunters gang has claimed a second successive breach of Instructure, the supplier of the Canvas learning management system (LMS), mere hours after the company claimed the whole affair was over ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP is investigating a data breach that led to unauthorized access to the sensitive information of Canvas users, a cloud-based ...

Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and universities, was hacked and disabled for hours as students attempted to access their grades and other class ...