{"id":305227,"date":"2026-05-08T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305227\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:37:14","slug":"sacramento-state-caught-in-nationwide-cyberattack-targeting-online-learning-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305227\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento State caught in nationwide cyberattack targeting online learning platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major cyberattack targeting a widely used educational technology platform is impacting colleges and universities across the country, including schools throughout California.<\/p>\n<p>Education software company Instructure, which operates the online learning platform Canvas, is scrambling to respond after hackers claimed to have accessed sensitive student and faculty information.<\/p>\n<p>Canvas is used by thousands of schools worldwide for coursework, assignments, quizzes, exams and communication between students and instructors.<\/p>\n<p>At Sacramento State, students logging into Canvas on Thursday were reportedly redirected to a page displaying a message from a hacking group calling itself &#8220;ShinyHunters.&#8221; The message claimed the group had obtained student and faculty data and threatened to leak the information unless a ransom is paid.<\/p>\n<p>According to the message posted by the hackers, the stolen data may include student and teacher names, email addresses, student ID numbers and private Canvas messages.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers&#8217; message gives Instructure until May 12 to meet their demands.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/canvas-hack-message.png#.png\" alt=\"canvas-hack-message.png \" height=\"474\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The cyberattack comes at a critical point in the academic year, as many college students are preparing for final exams and graduation ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely stressful,&#8221; said Sacramento State senior Michael Lee Chang. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what information they have on us. They say they&#8217;re going to leak it if they don&#8217;t get their money. If my information is out there, that&#8217;s awful and it&#8217;s definitely not helping with the anxiety when I&#8217;m just trying to graduate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the breach is impacting not only California State University campuses, but also schools within the University of California and California Community Colleges systems.<\/p>\n<p>So far, some school officials say there is no evidence that Social Security numbers, financial information or home addresses were compromised in the breach.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate the cyberattack could affect as many as 9,000 schools globally, potentially impacting millions of students, teachers and staff members.<\/p>\n<p>The University of California and California Community College systems said they were in active communication with Instructure regarding the cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major cyberattack targeting a widely used educational technology platform is impacting colleges and universities across the country,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5529,19808,121,123,122,5481,2012],"class_list":["post-305227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-state-university","tag-data-breach","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-state","tag-university-of-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}