its\u00a0website<\/a>, Tarrant County College\u00a0is\u00a0monitoring\u00a0the situation, noting that the \u201cbreach remains isolated.\u201d\u00a0There is no evidence that passwords, financial\u00a0information\u00a0or\u00a0social\u00a0security\u00a0numbers\u00a0were compromised, the school said.\u00a0<\/p>\nFort Worth ISD and Canvas attack<\/p>\n
Ale\u00a0Checka, a teacher at Southwest High School in Fort Worth ISD, said leaders at her school sent out an email Thursday\u00a0advising teachers to\u00a0shut down their computers and make sure their students had done the same. The school librarian, who also handles tech issues, then went to every teacher and asked them to make sure their phones were off the school\u2019s\u00a0WiFi\u00a0network, she said.<\/p>\n
On Friday morning, the school\u2019s principal announced that teachers and students could get back online but should still avoid logging into Canvas. That was a major disruption for teachers,\u00a0Checka\u00a0said. Students\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0access or\u00a0submit\u00a0assignments through the platform. Many teachers had entire lesson modules stored in Canvas and\u00a0haven\u2019t\u00a0had paper copies for years, she said.<\/p>\n
Checka said she was less affected than some of her colleagues because she avoids using the platform as much as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a pain in the butt, and that\u2019s on the best day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The Canvas breach\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0the first time Fort Worth ISD has dealt with cybersecurity issues. In March 2020, just days before the pandemic shut down campuses, a malware attack shut down the district\u2019s website and computer network. That attack was more disruptive,\u00a0Checka\u00a0said, because it not only prevented them from communicating with students, but also prevented them from using the network to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn\u00a0the scale of disruptive ransomware attacks, this one is less bad,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\nNorth Texas school districts, colleges affected by Canvas outage\n<\/p>\n
This story will be updated.<\/p>\n
The DMN Education Lab deepens the coverage and conversation about urgent education issues critical to the future of North Texas.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0DMN Education Lab is a community-funded journalism initiative, with support from Bobby and Lottye Lyle, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Garrett and Cecilia Boone, Judy and Jim Gibbs, The Meadows Foundation, The Murrell Foundation, Ron and Phyllis Steinhart, Solutions Journalism Network, Southern Methodist University, Sydney Smith Hicks, and the University of Texas at Dallas. The Dallas Morning News retains full editorial control of the Education Lab\u2019s journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group known as\u00a0ShinyHunters\u00a0launched a cyberattack against the platform\u2019s parent company, Instructure, threatening to release data\u00a0stolen from colleges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,97766,223,97909,27,29,28,88032,89512,90041,89204,89398],"class_list":["post-284640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-article","tag-business-technology","tag-news","tag-news-national","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-ed-lab-school","tag-tp-education-lab","tag-tp-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284640","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=284640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}