Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
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Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
#2A college student I know just sent me a screenshot, he can't access canvas for his school at all
Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
#3The Canvas instance at the nearby university is now down (May 7, 4 PM Eastern), but was briefly displaying the message in this screenshot (1). The ransom message implies that today's problem is the second wave in an attack on Instructure after ignoring their first breach in recent days.
Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
#4I use Canvas for some postgraduate studies, and my teenage daughter uses it at her high school.
We already bond over how awful the Canvas UX is (and she has a bunch of Chrome extensions to improve it.) Now we’ve got something else to gripe over together.
Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
#5A college student I know just sent me a screenshot, he can't access canvas for his school at all
Same, my daughter just sent a screenshot, she was trying to study for finals.
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#6Our public school system here in Maryland got hit, ransom screen.
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#7Eek I bet there are a few people at Instructure who won't be getting much sleep tonight!
Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
#8Qld, Australia was also affected: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/qld-gov-says-students-staff-c...
Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
#9Pretty cruel to do this right around finals.
Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
#10yep, i work for a major university and our canvas instance is down. this is really, really bad.
edit: here's the list of impacted universities (unsure if they all have their canvas instances offline, but i'd be surprised if not): http://91.215.85.103/pay_or_leak/instructure_affected_school...