A cyberattack on Canvas knocked out access for students at Harvard, Columbia, and hundreds of other schools during finals
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In a nutshell: An outage on Canvas last week did more than interrupt logins. It exposed how much modern education depends on a single platform – and how vulnerable that platform can be when something goes wrong. Instructure, the company behind the widely used learning platform, said it had been dealing with a cybersecurity incident since at least May 1. By Thursday, the situation had spilled into public view as Canvas was pushed into maintenance mode, briefly cutting off access for students and educators across the US. The timing made the disruption especially noticeable, landing in the middle of finals and end-of-term deadlines at many schools.
The company's chief information security officer, Steve Proud, wrote in an incident log that Instructure had "recently experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor."...
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