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Is Canvas Still Down? Bay Area Schools Slowly Restore Access After Global Hack

  • Elize Manoukian--KQED
  • published date: 2026-05-08 21:59:25 UTC

The crippling cyberattack against Canvas, a widely used online learning platform, underscores the security vulnerabilities of education technology, experts said.

Without access to Canvas to share course materials, Skolnik passed around a flash drive to all 20 students to download the data they needed for class to their laptops. Skolnik said the experience ma… [+4319 chars]