9,000 Schools Learn About Resilience

Instructure’s Canvas platform, the digital lifeblood of global education, has kindly provided students and teachers with a front-row seat to a massive data breach courtesy of ShinyHunters. These opportunistic charlatans leveraged 'Free-For-Teacher' accounts to tinker with login pages, allegedly liberating billions of private records for their own collection. To avoid being the next case study, we might consider the radical notion of actually auditing free account features before they become a gateway to institutional collapse. One assumes the May 12 deadline for the data leak is just another deadline for students to ignore.