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Chairman Cassidy, Tuberville Seek Answers on Canvas Cybersecurity Incident, Calls for More Safeguards to Protect Students

·Source: DataBreaches.net

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Executive Summary

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) raised concerns about the recent cybersecurity incident on Instructure, threatening the data of 275 million students, families, and teachers worldwide. The incident shut down Instructure’s learning management system, Canvas, the most popula

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U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) raised concerns about the recent cybersecurity incident on Instructure, threatening the data of 275 million students, families, and teachers worldwide. The incident shut down Instructure’s learning management system, Canvas, the most popular system... Source
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Originally published by DataBreaches.net on May 18, 2026.

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