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Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

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Post by goldenskye »

nebula8804 wrote: post #31
HDBaseT wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is ongoing. We received communication that Canvas is down for "Under Maintenance" although it seems ShineyHunters have compromised Canvas again with that message you posted. We do not see that message anymore, although all instrucuture.com URLs are down. The list of schools in the ShinyHunters publication can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260507042014/http://91.215.85....

Seems like Canvas instances of schools not listed are also down (at least my alma mater is)

Yes, I work for an Australian online school. We’re down “for scheduled maintenance” (I question how “scheduled” it was given this is within school hours on a school day), but we’re not on the list published by ShinyHunters.

Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

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Post by crazygringo »

vinni2 wrote: post #23

I hate Canvas. I would rather run a course on GitHub. But our university forces it on us. And now this.

Do you remember how Canvas was a gigantic improvement over Blackboard?

And GitHub doesn't provide a way to record grades that remain private per student last I checked, much less sync them to the university, or 99% of other things Canvas does.

I don't love Canvas, but it's far, far preferable to a world without it.

Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

I wonder when the public is going to start calling for corporate liability for malpractice in software development and corporate liability for malpractice in IT deployments. Even if the tech industry fights it, it probably won't be that much longer.

Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

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Post by enceladus06 »

crazygringo wrote: post #41
skeaker wrote: post #9

Pretty cruel to do this right around finals.

Even more incentive to pay up. I wonder if the timing was intentional or just coincidental.

That is the point. Get an extra million or two $ in btc from Instructure.

Re: Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

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Post by starkrights »

incomplete wrote: post #10

yep, 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...

The source txtfile has since either been dos'd or deleted (at least it was when I tried to access)

Someone dumped the content into a google doc on reddit[1] if anyone's interested.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTktVSwTUM5I_w7bKNGj94sT...

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