NYC School District Hit by Malware Attack as Well as Canvas Hack

As the New York City Public School system grapples with the Canvas service hack affecting schools nationwide, one of its Manhattan campuses is contending with a separate incident.

Officials discovered malware installed on computers at one school community’s shared lab, according to a memo sent to affected school community members and seen by Bloomberg. The malware has since been removed, and the district is investigating with local police, per the memo.

The largest K-12 district in the US, which includes about one million students and staff at over 1,600 schools, was already dealing with the cyberattack on Instructure Inc.’s ...