Not finals week in NZ, but can confirm our Canvas-based course management system is down.
Building global single points of failure into dozens of countries' education systems via huge edtech providers is such a great idea /sarcasm.
Eddie Clark
Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack.
www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
