{"id":284499,"date":"2026-05-08T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:50:16","slug":"canvas-cyberattack-disrupts-north-texas-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284499\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas cyberattack disrupts North Texas schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tsuo9uutihbp2oi6.jpg\" alt=\"Schools affected by Canvas data breach\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">PLANO, Texas &#8211; A cyberattack on an online learning platform disrupted schools and universities nationwide, including many in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>   Canvas Outage <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4196tz-canvas-hack_00.00.01.24.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The Canvas outage and data breach on Thursday impacted more than 30 million active users across the nation, just as many were preparing to take final exams.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Canvas is one of the most widely used learning education platforms. Students and teachers use it to access assignments, grades, lecture videos, and course materials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The hacking group known as ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and threatened to release sensitive student data.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">A cybersecurity analyst said hackers are increasingly targeting schools and universities.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;We are looking to a possible big data leak of minor data, student data, which can be potentially concerning,&#8221; said Juan Guevara Torres, a tech expert.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Several school districts in North Texas have said they were impacted, including Plano and Allen ISDs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Colleges across the metroplex also report problems, such as Southern Methodist University and Tarrant County Community College.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials with Canvas\u2019s parent company, Infrastructure, have not released details about the extent of the breach or when service will be fully restored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Associated Press, emails from school districts and universities.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/plano\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/allen\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allen<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANO, Texas &#8211; A cyberattack on an online learning platform disrupted schools and universities nationwide, including many in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1242,960,163,223,160,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-284499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-allen","tag-collin-county","tag-education","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}