Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
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#23I hate Canvas. I would rather run a course on GitHub. But our university forces it on us. And now this.
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#24And grades are due in the next week or so for many of these (usually a quick deadline at the end of the semester due to graduation happening)...
My wife’s grades are due tomorrow. She was in the middle of finishing exams when it happened. She can’t even access the exams to grade by hand. Total mess.
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#25I 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.
I vibecoded a pretty extensive CLI for Canvas and using it is very pleasant. Joyful, even, when combined with an LLM. Especially when compared to the developer hostile Blackboard Ultra.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
tbh this has me wondering if canvas "instances" are actually as isolated and segregated from each other as they're supposed to be.
It's possible that Instructure's servers got compromised: dig canvas.ucdavis.edu [...] ;; ANSWER SECTION: canvas.ucdavis.edu. 1974 IN CNAME ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.125 ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.103 ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.15 ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.18 dig canvas.duke.edu ;; ANSWER…
that's what the screenshot says. They rooted Instructure servers.
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#27I wonder how much old data Canvas keeps around? Are students who graduated in 2016 going to be at risk of having their academic data leaked?
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#28Down for all students at my University… it’s going to be a headache for all professors to deal with extending due assignments.
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#29> Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance doesn't seem that scheduled to me
Well, scheduled by whom? :)
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#30It looks like every CSU System is on the list (California State University). Surprised this hasn't hit the front page yet.