"Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and universities into turmoil."
"Across academia, the outage set off panic and confusion as students and faculty members found themselves locked out of a platform they rely on to manage grades and access course notes and assignments. Colleges scrambled to reschedule final exams as students lost any way to access materials they needed to study."
"Instructure, the company behind Canvas, said in an update late Thursday that the system was available for most users. Instructure has not posted about the attack on its social media, and the company didn't immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press asking whether it paid a ransom and inquiring about what happened with the compromised data."
"A hacking group called ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. The hacking group posted online that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were aff"
A cyberattack knocked the Canvas online learning system offline during final exams, leaving tens of thousands of students and faculty unable to access grades, course notes, and assignments. Students reported panic and confusion as classes and study plans were disrupted, and professors struggled to calm students. Colleges and universities scrambled to reschedule final exams because students lost the materials needed to study. Instructure, the company behind Canvas, later reported that the system was available for most users. A hacking group called ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, and a threat analyst said the group posted that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected. The incident followed a pattern of attacks targeting digitized school data, including prior breaches of major school districts.
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