Cyberattack Hits Canvas System Used by Thousands of Schools as Finals Loom

The Canvas learning management system, used by thousands of schools and universities worldwide, went offline Thursday during a cyberattack claimed by the hacking group ShinyHunters. The outage came at a critical time as students prepare for final exams, with the hackers allegedly accessing billions of private messages and records from nearly 9,000 schools while threatening to leak the data unless extortion payments are made. Schools from Harvard to the University of Iowa scrambled to find workarounds, with some institutions like the University of Texas at San Antonio postponing finals scheduled for Friday.