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The Student News Site of Cuesta College

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Cuesta College emailed students on May 8 to notify them that Canvas was back up and functional following a security breach. Cuestonian Screenshot.

Cuesta’s Canvas system is back online

Phillip Quady, Features Editor May 8, 2026

The Canvas platform for Cuesta College has been restored and is once again functional and accessible to all students. As previously reported, the cyberattack on the company Instructure led to Cuesta’s...

A screenshot of the message Cuesta College students and faculty received when logging onto Canvas on May 7, 2026.

Cuesta’s Canvas has been hacked

Casey Lieberman, Editor in Chief May 7, 2026

The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters has breached Cuesta College’s Canvas. Starting this afternoon, when students and faculty tried to log in to their Cuesta Canvas accounts, they were met with...

Canvas visitors from Cuesta College and others around the globe are receiving error messages due to the AWS outage on Oct. 20. Screenshot by The Cuestonian.

Canvas down due to global internet outage

Casey Lieberman, Features Editor October 20, 2025

Due to an Amazon Web Service (AWS) shutdown that began Monday around midnight, systems around the world are at a halt. Flights are delayed, workers stalled, and for Cuesta College faculty and students,...

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