Schools across Southern Nevada reported they were affected by a nationwide cybersecurity incident involving the learning management system Canvas on Thursday. The Clark County School District said in an email to families that it was monitoring the outage with cybersecurity professionals. The district said Canvas was unavailable for students and staff to use as of Thursday afternoon. “Canvas contains limited student and staff information. CCSD does not store highly sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, financial data, or medical records, within Canvas,” the district said Thursday. “Please do not attempt to log in to Canvas until further notice, and do not click any links that appear in the system.” UNLV said Canvas was experiencing system-wide outages as of Thursday afternoon. “These are not specific to UNLV, and university-owned systems are secured. Never click on any links in suspicious messages. Please await additional information as we continue to investigate,” the university said.…