The online education platform Canvas suffered a ransomware attack that shut down access in the United States this Thursday. The cyberattack knocked down the system used by thousands of schools and universities, leaving institutions struggling to recover from the outage.
The disruption has caused chaos for students at thousands of schools as they study for their final exams.
A cybersecurity firm threat analyst reported that a hacking group posted online that nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were affected. The group claims that billions of private messages and other records, including personally identifying data, were accessed. This incident is not the first major breach within the edtech sector.