Massive Canvas hack affecting college finals

[Anonymous]

According to Reddit sources - take as you will:

https://www.reddit.com/r/udub/comments/1t6lr2l/shinyhunters_hacked_uw_canvas_and_other/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I'm currently in the room with someone who works for a company that integrates with Canvas and he is STRESSING

Asleep_Brick_9610 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Asleep_Brick_9610/)
• 33m ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/canvas/comments/1t6mpb6/comment/okio3fh/)

The hackers were booted out of the system after they started the breach on May 1st, and they came back today. They started in a North Carolina school district, and when that was successful, they went nationwide.

[Anonymous]

Worldwide 9,000 learning institutions and 275 Millions users of Canvas affected. Canvas systems at Harvard, WashU and other universities down around 4pm ET today.

[Anonymous]

Howard County Public Schools were hacked as well. Canvas is down.

[Anonymous]

Northwestern too

[Anonymous]

Cornell hit - it’s finals week

[Anonymous]

It's all of Canvas folks. Everywhere. Every college that uses it and every k-12 that uses it.

[Anonymous]

Black Hat Hacker is the new career goal for CS grads!

[Anonymous]

Gee, too bad they gutted CISA.

[Anonymous]

Can you imagine if they had hacked College Board this week on top of that?

[Anonymous]

Rumor is it will take days if not more than a week to fix this. Not sure what you do with college exams?

[Anonymous]

For schools that end imminently it’s not like you can extend it right? I think you just have to cancel it and then your grade is based on everything else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For schools that end imminently it’s not like you can extend it right? I think you just have to cancel it and then your grade is based on everything else?

Do they have a backup of "everything else?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern too

Mobile app works for now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rumor is it will take days if not more than a week to fix this. Not sure what you do with college exams?

Nothing wrong with old school paper and pencil blue book exams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For schools that end imminently it’s not like you can extend it right? I think you just have to cancel it and then your grade is based on everything else?

Do they have a backup of "everything else?"

NP.
Oh wow. Didn’t realize grades + assignments weren’t otherwise downloaded.