Instructure: "We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise."
@dexdigi.bsky.social: "What does it mean when the customer for an educational technology app isn't the student, isn't the user, it's the institution?"
AI detectors don't work and there's a whole industry marketing circumvention products to students.
"Even honest students are often willing to fork over $10 to $20 per month for premium tools, since A.I. detectors sometimes flag legitimate work."
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
“That is shocking. And no, I don’t mean the size and implications of this massive data breach…I mean that this is the story: “the LMS is down. We can’t do school.”
This take down of LMS’s in light of he Canvas breach is even better than the one I posted earlier today. Read and take to heart.
LinkedIn Article - My reflections on Ian Linkletter's Gasta #EdTech2026 @iltasky.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/standi...
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The Canvas hack isn't over. I had a great conversation with Dexter about protecting students, institutional accountability, and rethinking our reliance on the LMS.
Stand tall!
A couple of factual corrections related to my interview:
When Instructure's CFO bragged about 1 trillion student records, it was on the verge of their sale to a private equity firm, not an IPO.
Also, I mistakenly thought FERPA required mandatory breach notifications like FIPPA, but was incorrect.
Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?
Instructure officially confirms they paid a ransom in this FAQ document: www.instructure.com/sites/defaul...
I see that the document name says Privileged Confidential but this was linked on their website.
I *did* make the point that obscurity is not security, which didn’t make it in here. But I do maintain it’s better for individual universities to be a little fishy in the current cyberattack climate. Be the littlest fishy in town.
