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Hackers target students' details at NZ university

Otago Daily Times Online News·Friday, 8 May 2026·25 days ago
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Luka Forman of RNZ An online learning system used by the University of Auckland and the Auckland University of Auckland (AUT), has been hit by a global data hacking incident. Names, email addresses, student ID numbers and messages between users could all be affected by the breach. Learning platform Canvas was offline, and the university said it was working urgently on workarounds to minimise the impact on teaching and learning on Friday. The Canvas data was held by third party platform Instructure, which had its data hacked. The University of Auckland said in a statement the university's own systems had not been breached and no other systems were at risk. It said there was no suggestion that any student assessment data, passwords or sign-on credentials had been affected. An email sent to staff at AUT, confirmed it had been impacted by the hack also. It said the university's ICT team were working with Instructure and would advise when more was known. It asked all staff to log out of Canvas.…

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