The Brief
- A hack on Canvas impacted 275 million students across the world.
- It went dark for around 90,000 schools after reporting a global outage around 4 p.m. Thursday.
- FOX 2 was told experts worked through the night to get Canvas back online.
(FOX 2) – A recent data breach is affecting Canvas, a program used by tens of thousands of schools across the country and here in Michigan.
Big picture view:
Canvas is used to manage courses, allows professors to grade assignments, and enables students to communicate with those professors. But it went dark for around 90,000 schools after reporting a global outage around 4 p.m. Thursday. An estimated 275 million students were affected, including those at Wayne State University.…