Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack

Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by SeanAnderson on Thursday May 07, 2026 @11:57PM (#48058367)

https://status.instructure.com/ implies Canvas became available again about thirty minutes ago from the time of this post.

Is this accurate? Or is this still an ongoing issue?

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Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by podiki on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:00AM (#48058389)

Ongoing. It is not "down" but purposefully offline for "maintenance." Main status does show the LMS (all the course stuff) down, and my instance shows "up" but that's because (I assume) you can reach it and the maintenance page. But that's not useful, if technically not "down."

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Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by SeanAnderson on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:01AM (#48058401)

Thanks

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Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by boldi on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:22AM (#48058525)

Canvas LMS is the core service that universities rely on. I assume they're trying to develop a fix and that's why the service is labeled "Under Maintenance". I'm a Berkeley student and can confirm that our instance (bcourses.berkeley.edu) is still down.

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Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by owlboy on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:09AM (#48059238)

Federated logins appear to now be broken for the campus I’m affiliated with. So more action is needed.

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