CHICAGO (WLS) -- A single attack brought a digital blackout to universities across the country. A former White House official says artificial intelligence was used in this attack. He says while the ...

The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle ...

The company behind the popular Canvas software, which was hacked last week causing major disruption at thousands of universities and colleges, has paid the hackers not to publish stolen data online.

The education sector has found itself in the crosshairs of a ShinyHunters “pay or leak” extortion campaign following the compromise of Instructure, the company behind the Canvas Learning Management ...

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Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic year A system that thousands of schools and universities in the US use was offline on ...

Canvas, a learning management platform, is back online after being down for hours on May 7 following a cyberattack. Hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach at Instructure, and ...

Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, has settled with the hacking group that sent finals season grinding to a halt across higher ed in the past week with widespread outages, it said in a message on ...

A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday due to a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education's dependence on ...

Many Illinois colleges and schools are scrambling after the online learning platform Canvas went offline Thursday following a cyberattack on its parent company. The shutdown forced the University of ...

The Widener Library on the Harvard Campus in Cambridge, Mass., on June 4, 2025. Reporter It’s finals season across many U.S. schools and universities, but for some students and teachers, the already ...

A cyberattack caused chaos for students at thousands of schools across the country, including many school districts, colleges and universities in Iowa.The attack Thursday targeted a system that ...