Turnitin Service Incident - 4th May 2026

We’ve fixed it!

Due to an unplanned key rotation by Instructure following the security incident posted here (https://status.instructure.com/incidents/9wm4knj2r64z), users might have been unable to access or generate similarity reports via Canvas LMS submitted via Canvas Plagiarism Framework (CPF). We are pleased to advise that service has been restored.

Affected products:

Turnitin
Turnitin UK
Turnitin Similarity, Originality and SimCheck

The incident occurred between the following times:

PDT: May 1st, 2026 - Friday, 15:30 to May 4th, 2026 - Monday 14:10
BST: May 1st, 2026 - Friday, 23:30 to May 4th, 2026 - Monday 22:10
AEST: May 2nd, 2026 - Saturday, 8:30 - May 5th, 2026 - Tuesday 7:10

Please note that Canvas will resubmit the affected submissions; it is worth noting that this may take a while to complete.

We regret any inconvenience this may have caused if you were impacted by the incident.

We’ve run into some issues.

Due to an unplanned key rotation by Instructure following the security incident posted here (https://status.instructure.com/incidents/9wm4knj2r64z), users will encounter issues accessing reports via Canvas LMS submitted via Canvas Plagiarism Framework (CPF).

Affected products:
Turnitin
Turnitin UK
Turnitin Similarity, Originality and SimCheck