{"id":169,"date":"2026-05-07T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=169"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:32:00","slug":"unplanned-canvas-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/unplanned-canvas-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplanned Canvas Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITS is aware of a national Canvas service outage and is looking into the issue. Our teams are in constant contact with the service provider and are monitoring the situation in real-time.\u00a0<strong>At this moment, we have no specific details regarding the duration of the outage or a definitive restoration window.<\/strong>\u00a0We will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update: May 8, 2026 10:35am EDT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At approximately 10:50pm last night (May 7, 2026), Instructure engineers brought Canvas&#8217;s main production environment back online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denison ITS is taking active steps to remediate the damage and mitigate or minimize any potential losses that may occur as a result of these incidents. When logging into the Canvas website, you may notice that some data is out-of-date, as we have paused certain data syncs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update: May 7, 2026 7:30pm EDT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have learned that today&#8217;s Canvas outage was a result of a second cyberattack impacting Instructure, the parent company of Canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This attack was likely carried out by the same threat actor that breached Instructure recently, SCATTERED LAPSUS, also known as ShinyHunters. SCATTERED LAPSUS is known as a &#8220;pay or leak&#8221; threat actor. Their modus operandi is to steal large amounts of sensitive data, then demand a ransom payment. If the ransom is not paid, they are known to release the data on dark web marketplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have no specific details about the outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITS is aware of a national Canvas service outage and is looking into the issue. Our teams are in constant contact with the service provider and are monitoring the situation in real-time.\u00a0At this moment, we have no specific details regarding the duration of the outage or a definitive restoration window.\u00a0We will provide updates as more information becomes available. Update: May 8, 2026 10:35am EDT At approximately 10:50pm last night (May&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securityblog.denison.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}