After an international cyberattack on the learning platform Canvas last week, local K-12 schools and institutions that use Canvas are back online.
Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, shut down the platform on May 7 due to a data breach carried out by a “criminal threat actor.” Instructure reactivated the platform after a few hours, and it was available again for most users. However, colleges and universities, including Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) and UC Santa Barbara, disconnected their local access “out of an abundance of caution.”
It led to cancelled exams across campuses last Friday and stress felt by both students and faculty, whose personal data was jeopardized by the attack.