canvas hacked…

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If your kid is in school, their data is probably compromised. Sounds like they are asking for a ransom…

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I heard A&M's was down today. Now I know why.
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What ever happened to just calling in a fake bombing so you could miss a final?
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TyHolden said:

What ever happened to just calling in a fake bombing so you could miss a final?
That's old school. Now you vibe code a denial of service attack and subcontract the execution with Eastern European hacker cells who work for fractional Bitcoins.
The left cannot kill the Spirit of Charlie Kirk.
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Paper and pen were practically unhackable.
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Who?mikejones! said:

Paper and pen were practically unhackable.

Do they still use blue books?
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As an old, what in the hell is Canvas?
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Bring back the punch cards!!!
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Burrus86 said:

As an old, what in the hell is Canvas?
It's the learning management system used for online classes. Hosts custom web pages for courses, tests, videos, etc.
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Burrus86 said:

As an old, what in the hell is Canvas?


It's the online learning platform thats now most commonly used
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Scantrons never had this issue, just saying.
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It also holds all of the grading platforms for all classes. No A&M student can log in to look at their classes (in person or virtual), their end of semester grades, can't turn in any assignments, etc.

What a mess…
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Yikes. Thats massive. All that "private" grade data. Right As finals were finishing or start depending on the school.
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techno-ag said:

TyHolden said:

What ever happened to just calling in a fake bombing so you could miss a final?
That's old school. Now you vibe code a denial of service attack and subcontract the execution with Eastern European hacker cells who work for fractional Bitcoins.


Username checks out.
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TyHolden said:

What ever happened to just calling in a fake bombing so you could miss a final?


My soph year in HS, 2 friends of mine (Srs) skipped school one day. Coincidentally, right around lunch, we had a bomb threat that kept everyone out of the building for half an hour or so. (Lunches were on different schedules -- 4, if I remember right). Anyway, several of us were outside in the parking lot just hanging out when my 2 buddies showed up. The thought BRIEFLY occurred to me that they might be responsible but we didn't explore the situation very far (to say not at all). What we DID do was send them to Wendys to pick us up a burger and fries. The problem was, the next period was starting soon. Myself and another buddy had a computer class together and we told one of the school skippers to bring our food there.

Well, we did the Jeff Spicolli thing ("who ordered the one with cheese and one with mayo?") and, of course, the teacher wasn't too happy. He kicked us out, so we ate right outside the classroom in an outside area with a bench -- in FULL view of everyone inside!!

So fast forward to Jan of this year and myself, the buddy in class with me, and one of the skippers meet up (we've kept in touch). I finally asked the skipper -- did you guys call in the bomb threat that day? He remembered what I was talking about and say, no, they didn't. I believe him -- I don't think those guys would risk that kind of trouble even back then (83-ish). But I did tell him that I've accused him of that all these years. We got a good laugh about it!
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Yep - my son will be a new Freshman in the Fall semester. Went to take the Math Placement Exam tonight on Canvas, and it was completely shutdown.
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Yeah, I got an email from my grad program and they cancelled exams tomorrow and said to listen to your profs over email on turning in final papers etc. and yes, I am an old, but company is paying for a masters/cert so I am back in school. Haha.
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We need less tech dependency in schools. Get rid of it and this won't be a problem.
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The timing of this was obviously on purpose. Maximum pressure.
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Waffledynamics said:

We need less tech dependency in schools. Get rid of it and this won't be a problem.

You might as well tell everyone they should start riding horses again.

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Stive said:

It also holds all of the grading platforms for all classes. No A&M student can log in to look at their classes (in person or virtual), their end of semester grades, can't turn in any assignments, etc.

What a mess…

Students can't see their grades, can't submit any outstanding assignments/extra credit, and faculty can't see grade books to calculate grades, nor access assignment submissions to complete end of term grading. It's a huge effing mess! At least graduating senior grades were able to be completed before this all went down.
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Mathguy64 said:

Yikes. Thats massive. All that "private" grade data. Right As finals were finishing or start depending on the school.

Yep. I work for TAMUCC and we got a CODE BLUE message earlier.

My lead engineer is getting his EE Masters right now.

He was stressed out today.

I'm actually getting a degree from another school (because TAMUCC didn't have what I needed). My school got hit too...
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Waffledynamics said:

We need less tech dependency in schools. Get rid of it and this won't be a problem.

I found out my finals grade by digging my assignment out of the box in front of the prof's office.

Sure, there was no privacy or security, but luckily we didn't have much tech dependency causing problems...

Luckily no one thought about just stealing the box...
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Thank God my school uses Brightspace.
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techno-ag said:

Burrus86 said:

As an old, what in the hell is Canvas?
It's the learning management system used for online classes. Hosts custom web pages for courses, tests, videos, etc.


Does Canvas have that freshly "printed" mimeograph ink smell?

Got to get that high sniffing the paper.
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After the "remote learning" experiment that our ISD's tried during COVID, I'm sure they will solve this IT glitch in no time.
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More inside scoop:

Literally a case of good for me not for thee.

1) Hackers almost certainly compromised new capabilities that were added to allow instructors/institutions to use AI to generate courses and course materials.

2) one of the biggest effects of the hack, Canvas/turrn-it-in cannot use tools to tell which student responses are AI generated.

I guess live by the AI sword, die by the AI sword.
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My kid says it's working now. Someone paid?
ts5641
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The school district I work in uses it. I don't think they have much personal information on there. Lots of school info, but we use it for training and mostly your professional credentials are used.
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Trajan88 said:

techno-ag said:

Burrus86 said:

As an old, what in the hell is Canvas?

It's the learning management system used for online classes. Hosts custom web pages for courses, tests, videos, etc.


Does Canvas have that freshly "printed" mimeograph ink smell?

Got to get that high sniffing the paper.

Classic 80's memory.
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No student info I guess aside from names and grades according to our district, is stored in Canvas.


District email.

Dear Lamar CISD Families,

We want to make you aware that Canvas, the learning management system used by Lamar CISD students and teachers, is currently unavailable due to a cybersecurity-related incident involving Instructure, the vendor that operates Canvas.

While this incident was not directed specifically at Lamar CISD, it has impacted thousands of schools and organizations across the country that use the Canvas platform.

At this time, families and students may not be able to access:
Course content and assignments
Grades and teacher feedback
Canvas announcements and messaging
Assignment submissions and quizzes

Please note that sensitive personal information, such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and passwords, is not stored within Lamar CISD's Canvas environment and was not impacted.

As a precaution, the district has also temporarily disabled direct Canvas access points connected through district systems and websites.

Both Instructure (the vendor) and Lamar CISD Technology Services are actively investigating the issue and working toward resolution.

We understand how important Canvas is to daily instruction and communication, and we appreciate your patience as this issue is being investigated. We will continue to monitor updates closely and share additional information with families as it becomes available.

Lamar CISD
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I work for a university- it worked until about 4:30pm yesterday then was "down for maintenance." Looks to be working now.
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techno-ag said:

TyHolden said:

What ever happened to just calling in a fake bombing so you could miss a final?
That's old school. Now you vibe code a denial of service attack and subcontract the execution with Eastern European hacker cells who work for fractional Bitcoins.


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Kozmozag
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Canvas is double dippin, getting paid for there service and getting paid a ransom to restart there service.
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Stive said:

Waffledynamics said:

We need less tech dependency in schools. Get rid of it and this won't be a problem.

You might as well tell everyone they should start riding horses again.




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