{"id":210561,"date":"2026-05-07T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/ui-icon-down-due-to-national-cybersecurity-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:15:07","slug":"ui-icon-down-due-to-national-cybersecurity-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/ui-icon-down-due-to-national-cybersecurity-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"UI ICON down due to national cybersecurity issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

UI ICON down due to national cybersecurity issues<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-07 19:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Students across the University of Iowa campus experienced a disruption in their finals studying around 3 p.m. on May 7 as the software company administering the university\u2019s curriculum homepage, Instructure, was hacked.\u00a0
\nUpon trying to open ICON, known as Canvas outside of the UI, students were greeted with a message threatening to release the university\u2019s data unless they negotiate a settlement by the end of the day on May 12.
\nThe message claimed to be from a hacking organization named ShinyHunters, which first appeared in 2019. According to Vali Cyber, they conduct these cybersecurity breaches with the primary motivation of profit through extortion.<\/p>\n

The UI\u2019s Information Technology Services website statesICON is unavailable due to national cybersecurity breaches that are affecting universities across the country. In the statement, ITS claims to be actively monitoring the situation and in close contact with Canvas as the issue is being resolved.
\nUI ITS declined The Daily Iowan\u2019s request for comment at the time of publication.\u00a0
\nUI Executive Vice President and Provost Kevin Kregel and Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer Brad Roher sent an email to students recognizing the complexity of the issue. They said additional guidance will be shared as the information becomes available.
\n\u201cWe recognize how disruptive this is, particularly as we approach the end of the semester, and we are working closely with faculty to ensure flexibility and continuity for our students,\u201d the email read.<\/p>\n

This breach came at a difficult time for students, with the week of May 11 marking the university\u2019s final exam week. Many students worry the disruption will deter their studying and are concerned about when the shutdown will end.
\nA screenshot of the message displayed on University of Iowa students\u2019 screens when trying to access ICON on Thursday, May 7, 2026.
\nJersey Tostrup, a first-year UI student studying business administration, discovered the cybersecurity issue right when she was about to study.
\n\u201cI had two hours scheduled to go through my natural disaster slides, and I can\u2019t access any of it with ICON down,\u201d Tostrup said.
\nSo far, Tostrup said one of her professors has sent out an email with class materials, but she is still concerned about many of her grades in other classes.
\n\u201cI feel like some professors or TAs might say, \u2018Oh, you should\u2019ve managed your time better and gotten it done before,\u2019 but no one can plan for something like this,\u201d Tostrup said.\u00a0
\nFor UI first-year journalism student Ayva Kemper frustration turned to fear.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s kind of an unsettling situation. Just concerns of privacy, and not fully understanding what information they have access to and what they plan to do with that information,\u201d Kemper said.
\nKemper said all of her teachers have helped provide her class materials, but she has had to request them.
\n\u201cAll of my instructions are in ICON,\u201d Kemper said. \u201cI\u2019ve had to take a lot of time to email professors for instruction sheets, which has taken away a lot of my work time.\u201d
\nKemper and Tostrup requested that the university speak about the incident and encourage professors to make instructions about upcoming assignments clear.
\nThe school should have a mandated role that if an outage like this happens, it should be mandatory that professors email the students any materials,\u201d Tostrup said.\u00a0
\nAriel Kolder contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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