{"id":300,"date":"2026-05-13T07:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:01:15","slug":"canvas-hack-disrupts-finals-week-at-san-antonio-colleges-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Canvas hack disrupts finals week at San Antonio colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A cyberattack to the Canvas learning management system used by thousands of colleges and universities across the world, has sent San Antonio institutions into a scramble to regain access and secure information amid finals week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=299\">Plans for San Antonio\u2019s expanded airport terminal on track, despite Spirit Airlines closure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that Canvas contains class notes, lectures, and other important information that you need to take your finals and complete your courses,\u201d reads a message sent to UT San Antonio students on Thursday evening. \u201cTo help minimize disruption to students during final exams, all assignments and exams that are due on or before Friday, May 8 on the academic campus will be rescheduled for a near future date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the confirmed affected institutions \u2014 the University of Texas at San Antonio, Alamo Colleges District\u2019s five colleges, University of the Incarnate Word and St. Mary\u2019s University \u2014 warn students, faculty and staff to stay alert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trinity University officials say they also lost access to Canvas when the platform\u2019s parent company, Instructure, took down the system temporarily to address the hack. But the company has since informed Trinity officials that there was no confirmed breach of the university\u2019s website or any of their digital platforms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of access to Canvas at Trinity was due to the Instructure shutdown, not to an external attack. During this shutdown, Instructure identified the probable path hackers took and corrected the situation,\u201d reads a statement issued by Trinity University officials on Friday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday evening UT San Antonio officials warned they\u2019ve already received reports of fraudulent messages claiming to be able to restore access to Canvas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo NOT click links in unsolicited emails claiming to be from Canvas, Instructure or UT San Antonio IT,\u201d university officials warned. <\/p>\n<p>The hack was reported on Thursday, with a hacking group calling themselves ShinyHunters claiming responsibility and asking institutions to \u201cnegotiate a settlement\u201d by May 12 to avoid a massive data leak.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=298\">As iconic San Antonio steakhouse Barn Door closes, Soluna owner confirms plans to move in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hack has brought afloat concerns over public education institutions\u2019 reliance on external online platforms as administrative and instructional tools, which can then become targets to cyber attacks and data breaches.<\/p>\n<p>Universities across San Antonio issued initial notices to their students on Thursday evening, warning them of the hack and asking them to avoid trying to log into the platform while they worked with Canvas to resolve the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were also forced to extend deadlines for final exams and other end-of-semester assignments, with some leaving any necessary extensions up to faculty\u2019s discretion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll final exams and deadlines previously scheduled during yesterday\u2019s Canvas outage and for today, May 8, will be rescheduled and\/or extended through Friday, May 15. Grade deadlines for faculty remain extended through Tuesday, May 19,\u201d reads an update sent to UIW students early Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Friday morning UT San Antonio still lacked full access to the platform and officials said they were working to reconfigure some of the Canvas-related tools. But other institutions, including UIW and Alamo Colleges, said their access had been fully restored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear how universities are handling the threat of a data leak. But students were asked to continue reporting any access issues and were warned to remain alert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUIW Information Security has ensured that all user accounts are\u00a0secure and are\u00a0carefully\u00a0monitoring\u00a0the situation,\u201d a message sent Friday morning reads.\u00a0\u201cBe aware that phishing attempts\u00a0often follow\u00a0incidents\u00a0like this, so\u00a0please\u00a0remain vigilant\u00a0and\u00a0avoid clicking on suspicious emails or messages.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=297\">A mother, a daughter and a 40-year-old Southside treasure called Mendez Cafe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The San Antonio Report partners with Open Campus on higher education coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>READ MORE<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<article>\n<!-- .featured-image --><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>NEISD revises cellphone policy after being threatened with state conservatorship<\/h3>\n<div>\n<span><br \/>\n<span>by<\/span> <span>Xochilt Garcia<\/span> <\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-wrapper --><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<!-- .featured-image --><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>UTSA\u2019s first lady honored for role in foster care-to-college pipeline<\/h3>\n<div>\n<span><br \/>\n<span>by<\/span> <span>Danya P\u00e9rez<\/span> <\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-wrapper --><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hack disrupted access to the online platform on Thursday, but most of the access had been restored by Friday with some warnings issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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