Die persönlichen Daten von Millionen von Schülern wurden bei einem schwerwiegenden Verstoß gegen das Bildungswesen gestohlen
Millions of students’ personal data stolen in major education breach
Die persönlichen Daten von Millionen von Schülern wurden bei einem schwerwiegenden Verstoß gegen das Bildungswesen gestohlen
Millions of students’ personal data stolen in major education breach
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All those cybersecurity workers who don’t have jobs… hmm I wonder?
D.O.G.E. ???
and who will be held responsible?
A full listing and dossier of america’s youth.
What more could a hostile nation ask for?
lmao. i actually was part of a school system hit by this and it was interesting to say the least
FYI: this was Tuesday’s attack.
Here’s today’s attack: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/hackers-deface-school-login-pages-after-claiming-another-instructure-hack/
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/05/millions-of-students-personal-data-stolen-in-major-education-cyberattack
Has some info.
The article talks about changing passwords….all students I know are locked out of their accounts and cannot change password.
Messages from “Hackers” state ransom must be paid by Tuesday or all data sold.
Names, emails, student ID, and private messages are compromised. So no huge deal for privacy.
Teachers who slack on grading will be screwed. Usually teachers manually take scores from canvas and input into separate grading software. If teachers are up to date then they are fine.
Future work is a problem, books and paper are back on the menu boys!!
Remember, don’t underestimate what attackers can do with just a leaked name, phone number, address, and email address.
If you’re a parent, be wary of any strange requests coming from „your kid in college who just needs some money to pay for textbooks“.
Why are school boards entrusting our kids data to a SAAS company? What could the possible benefits be? I don’t get it.
But yes let’s give our ID information to verify everything. Swell.
Fuck this technocrat hellscape
This sucks as a student who has finals next week starting Monday
The only way to explain Canvas is to understand state institutional software purchasing requirements.
This happened in Canada to the graduating class of like 2006 or 2008 or something.
Somebody took a thumbstick home on the subway and couldn’t find it
canvas being as dog water as ever
Why steal data when you can delete the debt.
It’s frustrating. Thousands of entities sharing a unified platform is a vulnerability. It’s time universities and companies go back to building up their dev and systems teams and building platforms in-house again.
Totally down here in Australia as of 9:20am on Friday.
My phone and email has been blowing up telling us repeatedly to not open canvas until further notice. I have a senior in high school and a sophomore doing virtual school and both schools are on canvas lockdown. What a cluster
Right now at hundreds (thousands?) of schools that use Canvas, students can’t submit assignments and professors can’t grade them. In the middle of finals.
Ah so that’s what the text I got this morning was about. Our education app was put offline because of a cyber attack. I don’t even go to uni anymore
at this point it would be weird if your data HASNT been stolen through some kinda breach and sold online
(My lazy a** not updating contact details, ignoring multiple requests from school about addresses etc)
Well, Well, how the tables have turned.
If only they didn’t fire all the IT people cause AI can do their jobs. *eyeroll*
This is the first outage my school had been hit with in the 3~ years I’ve been here.
Everyone got extensions for tonight due to the entire site being down.
Not a good sign, though. It’s finals week and everything has to be in by Saturday!
We got a text from the highschool about this and then later got a text from the high school that the police were called for a student in “crisis”, when they arrived they found him with a mechanical pencil but safely disarmed him. The principal is grateful for their fast response. A mechanical pencil.
Anyway.
It’s almost like centralizing millions and millions of people’s data and thousands of institutions all relying on one system for everything is a bad idea.
I was on my midterm’s Question 50 of 50 when it went down 😭
Oooh right at the end of the school year for most US educational programs.
I bet the bad guys have been waiting months to drop that hammer.
They better fucking pay the ransom
Three finals to take online and still need to access the information through canvas. And one online class I still need to complete two charters before the final and all online. This really blows.
I bet those students can’t wait for their free credit report and their $1.74 payout.
They’re gonna be $100 richer the next 100 times it happens, too!
When they say „millions“ here I think they could have put in the title that the breach impacted 275 MILLION students, faculty, and teachers.
A group of people need to end up in jail for this, and I don’t mean the hackers.
Takes a real idiot of a CEO to keep their actual files where they can’t get to ‚em themselves.
Shiny Hunters are on a god damn tear.
Trumps fault.
Who ruined the IT security space.
My university has been trying to move everything to canvas. I wonder how that’ll change things
University of Illinois is down.