I was once a student, and any disruption of finals is not good for them, but its cause, the hack of the widely loathed spyware education software platform Canvas.
Everyone who is actually directly involved in education, so not school board members or IT staff, hates it with a passion.
Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams.
Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructure said it temporarily took Canvas offline on Thursday after identifying unauthorized activity in its network. The threat actor was the same one responsible for a data breach that Instructure disclosed a week ago. Data accessed included user names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform. The company said it has no indication that passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers, or financial information were involved.
Here's an idea. Don't use programs where your data is stored with a 3rd party who monetizes that data.
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