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VCU Takes Canvas Offline After Cyberattack
VCU said the outage may affect thousands of institutions worldwide as Instructure investigates a possible cyberattack and a threatened data leak.
- On Thursday, May 7, the Canvas learning platform went offline nationwide due to a cyberattack, with the University of Washington confirming an "apparent security incident" affecting thousands of students.
- The hacking group ShinyHunters, active since at least 2019, claimed responsibility for breaching Instructure servers and asserted that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide are affected by the attack.
- Demanding a settlement, ShinyHunters set deadlines of Thursday and May 12 for negotiations, stating, "Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some 'security patches.'"
- Universities including VCU, Harvard, and Stanford took Canvas systems offline, while VCU advised students not to open unsolicited messages or click links related to Instructure.
- The education sector remains a prime target for hackers seeking digitized files, and threat analyst Luke Connolly noted the Canvas incident mirrors a previous breach at PowerSchool.
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