TNB Tech Minute: Canvas Restores Service After Cyberattack Disrupts Thousands of Schools
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back. |
| 0:04.4 | Mom! |
| 0:05.0 | Up the stairs for something. |
| 0:07.8 | Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for. |
| 0:12.0 | Mom, what's for dinner? |
| 0:13.6 | Chop, sizzle, done. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier. |
| 0:23.4 | So its phones down, forks up. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello, Fresh. Bring back dinner time. |
| 0:31.3 | Here's your morning T&B Tech Minute for Friday, May 8th. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:37.4 | Education software platform Canvas says it has restored service after a hack destroyed. for Friday, May 8th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. Education Software Platform |
| 0:38.8 | Canvas says it has restored service after a hack disrupted thousands of colleges and high |
| 0:43.5 | schools. The software is used by students to submit assignments, communicate with instructors, and |
| 0:48.8 | take exams. Infrastructure Inc., the company behind Canvas, says the intruders had accessed some customer data, |
| 0:55.7 | including names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages between Canvas users. |
| 1:01.7 | The company says it hasn't found that passwords or financial information were involved. |
| 1:06.4 | The investigation is ongoing, and it has notified the FBI. |
| 1:10.7 | Sony Group is projecting double-digit earnings growth for the new fiscal year, despite its fourth quarter net profit falling sharply due to losses from its electric vehicle joint venture with Honda Motor and weakness in other businesses, like gaming. |
| 1:23.0 | The Japanese company booked an equity investment loss of about $286.1 million related to the Honda venture that recently canceled EV developments. |
| 1:32.7 | Sony has spent billions of dollars in acquisitions in recent years to beef up its entertainment content, relinquishing control of businesses in other areas. |
| 1:40.7 | And the International Monetary Fund is warning that AI-powered cyber attacks could cause financial shocks. |
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