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2026 Wits University — Ulwazi/Canvas outage in global Instructure crisis (May)

2026 Unknown records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Tied to parent LMS incident

Technical writeup

Reporting described Wits students/staff locked out of Ulwazi during the global Canvas/ShinyHunters crisis (see instructure-canvas2026). Wits warned against suspicious login emails.

Root cause

Downstream Canvas/Instructure incident

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