The Brief
- The college platform “Canvas” is facing a massive ransomware attack at schools across the country.
- That includes UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
- The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach.
MILWAUKEE – Canvas, a school learning platform, has reportedly been hacked and is experiencing outages. It’s causing problems for thousands of universities nationwide, including UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison.
Canvas cyberattack
What we know:
According to DownDetector, Canvas by Instructure is a learning management system (LMS) that supports online course organization, assignments, grading, video conferencing, and a range of educational tools for schools and universities.
DownDetector said users began reporting issues with Canvas on Thursday afternoon.…