Updates and Information About the Instructure Security Incident The Instructure security incident is a vendor-driven national event affecting multiple institutions. UMass Amherst IT is actively monitoring communications from Instructure and will share material updates provided by the vendor on this web page as they become available. Updates from Instructure can be viewed on their status page: status.instructure.com. Please contact @email with any questions. Update Wednesday, May 6, 1:30 p.m. UMass Amherst has been notified by Instructure that UMass Amherst was impacted by the recent cybersecurity incident affecting Instructure’s product, Canvas. Based on what Instructure has told us to date, the data involved may include personal information such as names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages among users. Instructure has told us that they have found no indication that passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers, or financial information were involved. Please note that UMass Amherst does not store dates of birth, government identifiers, or financial information on our instance of Canvas. Instructure has told us that there are no indicators of an ongoing threat and that it has notified law enforcement, including the FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). While UMass Amherst has been told that it was impacted, Instructure has not yet provided any further specifics beyond the general categories of data described above. Instructure has committed to providing organization-specific information as quickly as possible, as well as identity protection resources for affected individuals. UMass Amherst IT will share additional information as soon as it is confirmed. Update Tuesday, May 5, 8:05 a.m. Instructure, the published of Canvas, reports that Canvas Data 2 and Beta should now be available for all customers. Canvas Test remains under maintenance. Turnitin reports that service for similarity reports via Canvas LMS submitted via Canvas Plagiarism Framework (CPF) has been