YORK, Pa. — Penn State students across the Commonwealth, along with roughly 30 million users, have been locked out of their Canvas accounts due to a ransomware attack.
The outage was announced by university officials on Thursday afternoon.
“Penn State is currently experiencing an outage to Canvas related to an ongoing security incident affecting Instructure, the vendor that provides the Canvas platform,” the university said in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, users should avoid interacting with or clicking on any links, messages or content that may be posted by threat actors or appear suspicious during this event.”…