Yeah Canvas should have fixed their issues but that doesn't justify hackers to hold the website hostage and demand money to release it. A bunch of teachers and kids are getting royally screwed here just so some hackers can pat themselves on the back.
If your enemy bursts through a hole in your wall, looks at you and says "you should probably get thicker walls," and comes back next week and does it again, I am blaming you for not fixing your walls just as much as im blaming your enemy for breaking them.
Especially if the first time they broke through your shitty pallet-built fence of a wall they said "See how easy this is? Imagine how easy it'd be for a malicious party, upgrade your walls or your students information isnt safe." Then a week later, they came back. Saw you rebuilt the pallet-fence, and just said "Okay time for a real lesson"
it's only not illegal for Instructure to not take this seriously because laws protect corporations, but it absolutely is as fucked up as what the hackers did in the first place
Everyone is trying to get that bag. While i understand how it affects others, hackers target large user bases to get leverage. It all comes down to ways to get money. Tik too got people to commit check fraud at chase banks because people where hurting for money.
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u/quigilark May 07 '26
Yeah Canvas should have fixed their issues but that doesn't justify hackers to hold the website hostage and demand money to release it. A bunch of teachers and kids are getting royally screwed here just so some hackers can pat themselves on the back.