And of course the company that cheaped out on security will give $0 compensation to students who had to rearrange their lives on account of a company they had no choice in using.
If they had to pay the true cost of their breach, maybe they’d take security a little more seriously.
Our university got hit too, but at least our finals season ended a few weeks ago. Right now it’s affecting the summer classes which start next week
As well as the personal data of students, faculty, etc from the past however many years…
See here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Canvas_security_incident
Student newspaper: https://ubyssey.ca/news/live-updates-canvas-down-after-cyberattack/
Thanks for the wiki link.
It’s coming back up. But the university I’m involved with needs to fix their federated login systems now.
And who knows if they actually patched the flaw and if it’ll be hit again.
