Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack

Somehow I have less distaste for ShinyHunters than I do for the companies who don't secure user data

It looks like Instructure has been removed from the ShinyHunters website. Both the entry and the list of schools has been removed.

I remember circa 2010 a friend of mine at college was like “blackboard sucks, let’s build something new”. At the time I poo pood the idea and lo and behold canvas came out a year later. Outside looking in, they been crushing it.

My wife is in grad school at a major university and is dealing with this right now the week of midterms for spring quarter.

I totally understand why a university wouldn’t want to bake their own learning portals but just feels like such a single point of risk to use third party solutions for something like this.

Back in my day… all we had was a school email via on-premise services. I guess we registered for classes in a web portal but that’s about it. The idea of online class was entirely foreign at the time. Ain’t nobody hacking a blue book.

Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054386

https://archive.is/5v693

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Too busy implementing important things like pronouns to focus on security.