RNZ<\/a><\/p>\nNames, email addresses, student ID numbers and messages between users could all be affected by the breach.<\/p>\n
Learning platform Canvas was offline, and the university said it was working urgently on workarounds to minimise the impact on teaching and learning on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Canvas data was held by third party platform Instructure, which had its data hacked.<\/p>\n
The University of Auckland said in a statement the university’s own systems had not been breached and no other systems were at risk.<\/p>\n
It said there was no suggestion that any student assessment data, passwords or sign-on credentials had been affected.<\/p>\n
An email sent to staff at AUT, confirmed it had been impacted by the hack also.<\/p>\n
It said the university’s ICT team were working with Instructure and would advise when more was known.<\/p>\n
It asked all staff to log out of Canvas.<\/p>\n
Canvas was used in 9000 education systems around the world.<\/p>\n
AFP was reporting, the hack had also hit US universities including Harvard, Stanford.<\/p>\n
According to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper and posts on social media, students attempting to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group saying servers belonging to Canvas’s parent company Instructure had “again” been breached.<\/p>\n
“Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some ‘security patches,'” the hackers said.<\/p>\n
“If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately…to negotiate a settlement.”<\/p>\n
The group warned it would release all stolen data if schools did not make contact by May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online learning system used by the University of Auckland and the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,84,42,43,145,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-417469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}