It’s still unclear how many Iowa schools were impacted by Thursday night’s cyber attack involving a learning software that’s used by thousands of school districts nationwide. The hackers, who call themselves Shiny Hunters, threaten to leak personal data on students and teachers if ransom demands aren’t met by May 12th. Leslie Heying (HY-ing), with the Sioux City Community School District, says the Canvas program was shut down when they learned of the attack. “Canvas is the district’s learning management system, and we did become aware of a brief outage of Canvas last night, but by 11 p.m., it was back online,” Heying says. “At this time, our understanding is that no sensitive information was impacted by the incident.” Reports say the exposed Canvas records include names, student I-D numbers, email addresses, and billions of internal private messages.
