(Radio Iowa) – It’s still unclear how many Iowa schools were impacted by last (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, with the Sioux City Community School District, says the Canvas program was shut down when they learned of the attack.
Reports say the exposed Canvas records include names, student I-D numbers, email addresses, and billions of internal private messages. Heying says the district is monitoring the situation.
Reports say the University of Iowa and Iowa State University were also impacted, along with school districts including Des Moines, Iowa City and Marshalltown.
