Cyberattack Affects Canvas Learning Management System
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
A widely used educational software appeared to be inaccessible to schools across the country on Thursday night amid an apparent cyberattack. Last week, its parent company, Instructure, reported a cyberattack on the Canvas learning management system, and although its status page indicated that the incident was resolved by Wednesday, Canvas was put into maintenance mode that afternoon. Meanwhile, Canvas became unavailable at schools nationwide, including several in Massachusetts: Harvard and MIT's sites were down, and Boston College issued a tech alert noting a 'widespread outage' of Canvas that Instructure was working to resolve. Student newspapers from each of those universities reported that on Thursday, their Canvas sites began redirecting users to a ransom message from a group of cybercriminals, giving institutions several days to pay to avoid data disclosure. The list includes thousands of schools, among them Harvard, MIT, and Boston College. Our sister station NBC10 Boston has reached out to Harvard, MIT, Boston College, and other local schools listed for comment.
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