Canvas Down!
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ShinyHunters, a black-hat hacking group, has brought down Canvas across a significant portion of America’s higher education system:
Students were unable to access Canvas on Thursday afternoon after cybercrime group ShinyHunters shut down Penn’s access to the interface.
The May 7 data breach comes after ShinyHunters — notorious in the hacking community for large-scale data breaches — claimed responsibility for breaching Instructure, the company that manages Canvas, last week. In the message posted on Penn’s Canvas page, the hackers wrote that any university that does not wish to have its data released should contact the group before May 12.
A request for comment was left with a University spokesperson.
“ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again),” the warning read. “Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some ‘security patches.’”
I am being told by professionals that ShinyHunters is angling for direct payouts from individual institutions. Good thinking to pull this in the midst of Finals Week. OMG we’re basically living in season two of The Pitt! Pay up, admins! Or don’t. I don’t really care, honestly. Also, “scheduled maintenance” is a nice cover story…
… actual footage from the Office of the President…
