University of Nebraska incident
Instructure Security Incident & Canvas Update
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring May 04, 2026, 02:42 PM UTC
On Friday, Instructure (the parent company of Canvas) experienced a cybersecurity incident. We are aware that the company has been working with forensics experts over the weekend to investigate the full scope of the national/global incident. At this time, the University of Nebraska has no information as to whether or not our instances of Canvas were impacted by this cybersecurity event. Our NU ITS team has not seen an increase in faculty/student issues using our instances of Canvas since the time of the incident. As we learn more about the scope of this incident from the vendor, we will be sure to keep you updated. Instructure is also periodically posting updates at https://status.instructure.com/.
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