Source: Radio New Zealand
The University of Auckland’s clock tower. (File photo) RNZ / Ziming Li
The University of Auckland’s online learning system 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.
Canvas was used in 9000 education systems around the world.
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