Canvas update from parent company Instructure

Instructure, the parent company of the Canvas Learning Management System, a vendor to Mississippi State University and many other large universities and educational institutions, issued its first public statement regarding the Canvas security incident that has affected over 9,000 schools and 275 million records.

The company has provided an FAQ page that helps explain what happened and how it affects MSU, our individual students, and faculty. To be clear, MSU’s website and data were not hacked or compromised. Instructure (Canvas), as they explain, experienced a security incident that affected MSU, as it has thousands of other users of the third-party vendor's software. We share Instructure’s information with our students, faculty, and staff through the link provided:

https://www.instructure.com/incident_update