Cyberattack Disrupts US School Exams, Threatens Data Leak
A significant cyberattack on a widely used educational platform has disrupted final exams for thousands of US schools and colleges nationwide. The hackers responsible are threatening to leak data from 275 million users following the breach.
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Cyberattack on system used by thousands of US schools disrupts final exams
Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic year A system that thousands of schools and universities in the US use was offline on Thursday during a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology. Students quickly took to social media to ask if others were unable to access Canvas, with many panicking that they could no longer view course materials housed ...
By Associated Press
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