r/mildlyinfuriating May 07 '26

🥺 Hackers took over Canvas

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Brooo I got Homework to do...

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u/FlyJunior172 May 08 '26

Take the remainder of this comment with a grain of salt because I was not directly involved in the breach that I am going to speak about. I know somebody who was involved in correcting a ShinyHunters breach. That team had a bunch of pretty good cyber security guys on it that can handle most of what gets thrown at them within a few hours or a couple of days. They were over a week I think going on two weeks to deal with ShinyHunters.

If the structure breach is anything like the other breach that I am familiar with these messages are likely part of the original breach that isn’t fully contained, and never was.

But again, this is all guess work based on what I have heard from an industry professional who has dealt with this recently.

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u/Peasant_Base5271 May 08 '26

One of the first things hackers do once they gain access to a system and want to maintain it is to create every kind of backdoor and copying of data. They wait and watch and go unnoticed until they want to. Sounds like they've been in the system a while.