An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, ...

Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the ...

Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, said Monday it reached an agreement with hackers to recover recently stolen data. Instructure said it convinced the “unauthorized ...

Canvas, an online learning platform used by several Massachusetts colleges, was hacked and disabled for hours on Thursday, May 7. The cloud-based learning management platform allows educators to post ...

Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, ...

The US House of Representatives is demanding testimony from representatives of Instructure, the twice-hacked company that owns the education platform Canvas. Lawmakers are seeking answers to explain ...

The company at the centre of a cyber attack involving online learning platform Canvas says it has reached an "agreement" with the hackers responsible, with Instructure's CEO offering an apology to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP is investigating a data breach that led to unauthorized access to the sensitive information of Canvas users, a cloud-based ...

Lawmakers are seeking answers from educational technology vendor Instructure, following the high-profile compromise of the company's Canvas learning management system (LMS) that left thousands of ...

Canvas, an online learning platform used by several Massachusetts colleges, was hacked and disabled for hours on Thursday, May 7. Instructure, Canvas' parent company, alerted users to a security ...