ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orange County Public Schools Chief Communications Officer Scott Howats joined Scott Anez on Orlando\u2019s Morning News amid the ongoing breach of the web-based learning management system, Canvas.<\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n The cybercriminal group ShinyHunters took over the Canvas domain and is currently holding the platform hostage, threatening to release sensitive data should Canvas refuse to pay ransom. Data includes millions of Social Security numbers; conversations between students and teachers; student grades and data, among other personal information. <\/p>\n READ: Central Florida schools on alert after hacker group claims massive Canvas breach<\/a><\/p>\n Politico reports that<\/a> nearly 9,000 schools and universities across the country have been affected by the breach.<\/p>\n Howats stated that OCPS is taking steps to ensure security. <\/p>\n Click below for the full interview.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orange County Public Schools Chief Communications Officer Scott Howats joined Scott Anez on Orlando\u2019s Morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,113675,113678,113677,113676,147,28,6601,139,141,140,5597],"class_list":["post-263509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-canvas-breach","tag-canvas-down","tag-canvas-hack","tag-canvas-hacking","tag-central-florida","tag-florida","tag-ocps","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}