Colleges and universities across the United States alerted on May 7 that Canvas had reported a security incident and was experiencing an outage.

The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Instructure, the company behind Canvas, a threat analyst said.

Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its Canvas platform following a breach by hackers going by…

Colleges and universities across the United States alerted on May 7 that Canvas had reported a security incident and was experiencing an outage.

El grupo criminal ShinyHunters reclama el robo de 275 millones de registros de Canvas.El ataque afectó a instituciones como Harvard y el MIT en plena semana de exámenes finales.

Days after the first attack, ShinyHunters is applying pressure with ransom messages on school login portals.

A hacking group breached the academic software Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities acrosst the US

An alleged cyberattack involving “unauthorized activity” on Canvas caused the site to temporarily shut down on Thursday, officials said.

Online education platform Canvas suffered a ransomware attack that shut down access in the United States Thursday.

Canvas' parent company said it was "investigating an issue where some users are having difficulties logging into Student ePortfolios."

Across the country, schools and colleges postpone year-end tests.

Instructure, parent company of the education platform Canvas, said it took “immediate steps” to contain the hack before calling law enforcement.

While students change passwords and watch out for imposter scams, schools should start scrutinizing their third party providers and practice for the next hack.