Universities and schools K-12 across the country, including in the Philadelphia area, have been impacted by a massive data breach targeting a system widely used by students and faculty.
The breach involves Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a web-based learning management system used daily by educators and students for coursework, assignments and communication. Thousands of institutions and millions of users have reportedly been affected, including the University of Pennsylvania.
According to the university’s newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian, the hackers reportedly wrote in Penn’s Canvas page that any university that does not wish to have its data released should contact the group before May 12…