For Those Of You Panicking About The Instructure Breach
UPDATE: Canvas Paid the Ransom.
Hello, So to give you the brief on everything that has happened and to explain how this certain band of idiots got into Canvas, Let's begin. Canvas had a known issue when it came to its Free for teacher accounts, which was then exploited by a group calling themselves ShinyHunters, They are your run of the mill ScriptKiddies, and are as a majority under the age of 15. They used a very low tech way of getting in and according to Canvas's parent company got ahold of nearly 300 MILLION users information. Which let's be honest here you do not need to worry about. Unless you decided to start talking dirty in the canvas chats most of what they got access to was essentially public information. So your name, student ID number and your school email adress. They did not get into your school email they only got the email adress. And news flash that was already public info. The only information with any intonation of privacy they got ahold of are your non final grades. So stop being afraid they got ahold of your social security number or something. They have Exabytes of data to go through if they did in fact get a hold of what they say they did. Thats 9000 schools and nearly 300 million user's data for them to download and then upload . At 1 GBPS, which is extremely fast internet it would take them 5 years just to release it. Its an empty threat. The only thing it serves to do is for them to try and get money from instructure. But yeah be scared that people are going to go through 300 million users data just to find your bad grades and make fun of you.