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

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.

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

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

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.

A cyberattack against one of the world’s largest digital education platforms has forced attention onto the vulnerability of U.S. schools’ data. ...

Hacking group interrupts exams in breach of Canvas educational platform used by thousands of universities, schools in US, Canada, Australia

The company behind Canvas says it has "reached an agreement" with the hackers who disrupted thousands of colleges and universities.

University of Galway and Munster Technological University both said they faced service disruptions following the Canvas hack.

Hack of online learning system caused chaos for students and faculty last week, delaying some final exams