Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students and staff hit by Canvas data breach
SpilloverSpillover from the Instructure incident · View original incident →Students and staff of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools were affected by the Canvas data breach. The specific extent of the damage and the response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Original incident
- Canvas learning platform hack causes data leak and exam disruption
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Students and staff affected; scale unknown
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that students and staff of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had been affected by the Canvas data breach.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Instructure incident.
Canvas learning platform hack causes data leak and exam disruption
Impact: Leak of student and staff data and disruption of classes and exams at many US schools
A hack of Canvas, the learning platform run by Instructure, led to a data leak and service outages at many US schools. During May final exams, students were unable to complete their tests, and Boise State University cancelled some finals. Instructure said the hackers returned the data after extortion over the stolen information.
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