Canvas back online after cybersecurity breach leaked certain personal data for staff and students

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Canvas is back online for students and staff at Park City School District following a security breach that had exposed some parts of users’ personal information.

Schools across the nation were implicated in the May 7 data breach of the popular web-based learning management service, operated by Instructure. The company took Canvas down to safeguard against further attacks and brought it back online the following day, May 8. Some accounts were still disabled, though.

“According to the latest information from Instructure, the incident was linked to an issue involving ‘Free-for-Teacher’ accounts,” the Park City School District said in a statement. “As a result, Instructure has temporarily shut down those specific account types while they implement further security hardening.”

Instructure said that potentially impacted data included names, email addresses, student identification numbers and messages exchanged within the Canvas platform. The company said it found no evidence that passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers (such as Social Security numbers) or financial information were exposed.

Instructure established a dedicated incident update page at instructure.com/incident_update.