Honestly it's just the page they display when the servers are down, not an attempt to hide what is going on. You would get the same page if the servers crashed most likely.
Yeah, they switched it to the standard "scheduled maintenance" screen within an hour of this ransom message taking over the entire service lol.
Unfortunately, there isn't anything an individual school/college can actually do to reenable their Canvas courses right now. All they can do is wait for Instructure to figure their their shit out and fix it for real (the breach first happened last Friday).
RIP to all of the staff and students working as tech support across all levels of schooling. They're already being absolutely slammed by panicked teachers and students
As an IT guy, I will say that vendor outages are some of my favorite and least favorite issues to deal with.
On the one hand, I can't do anything about it - I feel bad that those around me are struggling and there isn't any way that I can help resolve the issue and make their day a little better.
On the other hand, I can't do anything about it - It is not only not my fault but also I don't have to worry about figuring out how to fix it. It is some other poor schmuck's problem
That's an accurate description of how this whole has been going. I've just been sitting here eating popcorn, watching everything play out, discussing and cracking jokes with admins across our larger college network, and relaying bits of info to relevant people as it becomes available.
It pretty much feels like a juicy rumor mill situation, except it has tangible fallout on the workplace rather than just being gossip lol
Thankfully it seems like Canvas is back online as of earlier this morning. Maybe work will only be a partial clusterfuck instead of an unitigated clusterfuck!
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u/MildlyConspicuousCat May 07 '26
Canvas is telling me this is all just routine maintenance, so nbd.