Canvas Shutdown Impacts First Day of Finals

Canvas shutdown impacts first day of finals

Yesterday, May 7, the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters hacked Canvas by Instructure, shutting down the platform for nearly 9,000 schools — including SDSU.  At around 1 p.m., Canvas web users were greeted with a pop-up message from the hackers, explaining that the affected schools had “till the end of the day by 12 May 2026 before everything is leaked” to negotiate a settlement. As a result, Instructure decided to temporarily take Canvas offline,…

Canvas outage affects IC on first day of finals

This story was last updated at 12:09 a.m. May 8. Ithaca College Canvas went down in the afternoon of May 7, the first day of final exams. Canvas access was restored around 11 p.m. May 7. The outage occurred alongside a larger outage connected to a cyberattack affecting 9,000 schools. The Ithacan has been unable to confirm if IC’s Canvas outage is connected to this attack. In an email sent to the IC community on the evening of May 7, the Informat…