u/renosucks

The canvas login through both WCSD and UNR showing same maintenance page, as of time of post

https://www.washoeschools.net/student-and-families/student-login

https://www.unr.edu/webcampus

"ShinyHunters compromised Canvas (to a currently unknown extent) which resulted in a "this system has been compromised" to over 9,000 universities. As ridiculous as that sounds, I'm not memeing. It has been speculated it is actually over 9,000 universities."

More info

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instructure-hacker-claims-data-theft-from-8-800-schools-universities/

Well known group that does this sort of stuff, these types of groups target schools and hospitals. If you use Canvas and have shared info they require, it's worth keeping an eye on depending what exactly the attackers have and choose to do with it. Also good lesson, given the modern internet landscape, avoid volunteering more information other than what a service requires.. if you must use a service.

Edited to add

https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/president-messages/2026-05-06-cybersecurity-incident

Mentions potential threat of phishing

>In the meantime, be alert to unsolicited emails or messages appearing to come from Canvas or your institution, particularly any requesting login credentials or personal information.

More edit to add a bit about scope of incident.. UNR's portal has a new notice at top, describes it as nationwide

>WebCampus Outage Notice: We are currently experiencing an issue impacting access to WebCampus due to a widespread outage affecting Canvas services nationwide ....

The Australian government National Cyber Security Coordinator made statement too

>The Canvas learning management system impacted by a cyber incident is currently offline, affecting a large number of education providers globally, including in Australia.

https://x.com/AUCyberSecCoord/status/2052563189561503983