Harvard students lost access to Canvas on Thursday afternoon after the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters listed the University among thousands of schools allegedly affected by a breach of Instructure, Canvas’ parent company.
Canvas, which Harvard uses to host course websites, assignments, reading, and messages between students and instructors, remained accessible to Harvard affiliates through at least 2 p.m. Thursday.
Around 3:30 p.m., the site began redirecting to a message from ShinyHunters, a notorious cybercriminal group that claimed it had “breached Instructure” and posted a list of affected schools.
By around 4:20 p.m, the site had been updated to display a message that read, “Canvas
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