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Cybersecurity is no joke: Here’s how students can keep their digital information safe \u2013 The Daily Campus<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-10 22:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: smudailycampus.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.
\n After Canvas was hacked by the cybercrime group, ShinyHunters, resulting in the platform shutting down on May 7, there are some security concerns.
\nAfter the cybercrime group ShinyHunters hacked into Canvas, it\u2019s unclear whether students\u2019 information is protected, prompting many students to ask how to protect themselves going forward in Dallas, Texas, on May 7, 2026.\u00a0 (Chloe Casdorph)
\nWhat information do the hackers have on students? Is students\u2019 personal information secured after this event? How can students protect themselves? These are all questions that students should know the answers to.
\nThe Daily Campus\u2019 photo editor, Chloe Casdorph, spoke with Brad Bussie, the chief information security officer of e360, a technology company based in California, to better understand which security breaches occurred and how students can protect their information going forward.
\n\u201cThe Canvas situation is a large, ongoing breach and extortion incident against Instructure\u2019s Canvas LMS, with likely exposure of personal data (names, emails, IDs, messages) for millions of students and staff, but so far, no confirmed theft of passwords or financial data. People should treat it as a serious identity and phishing risk event and immediately harden passwords, watch for targeted scams and push their institutions to tighten integrations, logging and communication,\u201d Bussie said.
\nBussie also said that the criminal group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying they stole roughly 3.65 TB of data on about 275 million users across nearly 9,000 institutions worldwide.
\nCasdorph: How did you hear about Canvas being hacked? Can you give a little background on what happened from a security perspective?
\nBussie: Anytime something like this is talked about in the media, in the news, we typically know about it as security practitioners. Whether it\u2019s through a dark web monitor, threat intelligence or there\u2019s a bunch of different forums and things where people will talk about this. So that\u2019s where I saw it. I have a junior in high school, and their school uses Canvas, so I took a personal interest.
\nYesterday, really was the bulk of the information, because they took down the website \u2013 they meaning the ShinyHunters \u2013 and then they put up a ransomware banner slash site instead, which goes to show they have a lot more access than, I think, Canvas thought that they had. That was essentially saying, if you don\u2019t give us money, we are going to release all of this information that we have to the dark web, and then people will buy it.
\nCasdorph: From a security standpoint, what does this mean for students?
\nBussie: One thing that I noticed with a lot of students is they reuse the same password on a lot of things because it\u2019s just easier. That\u2019s really [should be] rule number one: all of your passwords should be different. I don\u2019t ask any of you to remember all of your passwords. They [Apple, Microsoft, NordPass and LastPass] make it easier [to] where you can have a password vault, and it will create random passwords for you and it just automatically fills it in.
\nStep two is anywhere that you can, you need to do two-factor authentication. All that means is that it either sends you a text message to confirm that it\u2019s really [you] logging into something. There\u2019s Google Authenticator, even Facebook now has one in the app, where it\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, is this really you? You\u2019re coming from a different place, IP address.\u2019
\nYou\u2019re building in some protection where an attacker isn\u2019t, \u2019cause what they\u2019re wanting, they\u2019re wanting to backtrack from this Canvas application, and they want to get into your email. The reason is [that] from your email, you can reset any password for any other application. If they happen to get your email password and you don\u2019t have multifactor set up, they\u2019re gonna change your password, lock you out and then reset all your passwords.
\nI don\u2019t think people realize how damaging getting into your email could be, and this is generally what they\u2019re after. They want your Social Security number, and they\u2019re hoping that, as a younger person, you haven\u2019t frozen your credit. They\u2019re hoping that your credit is still open and available so they can go and open credit cards, lines of credit, all that kind of stuff. They\u2019ll go into existing credit cards that you have, they will change the address, and then they will send themselves a new credit card. This is how damaging it can be for students, because you\u2019re just getting your credit started. You\u2019re just able to start doing this kind of stuff, and the attackers definitely want to take advantage of that.
\nCasdorph: Now that Canvas is back online, is it possible that the hackers have all our students\u2019 information?
\nBussie: It\u2019s possible. What we know right now is they\u2019ve got everyone\u2019s full names. They have your personal and school email addresses. They know each school typically has a unique identifier for each person, so they\u2019ve got your student ID. They\u2019ve got messages that were being sent back and forth through whatever campus messaging service that you have.
\nWhat I didn\u2019t say is that they don\u2019t have your password. They probably don\u2019t have your date of birth, they probably don\u2019t have your Social Security number and they may not have any financial data, like your student loans, if you\u2019re self-pay or whatever. But we don\u2019t know that for sure, so we need to pretend like they do.
\nCasdorph: What advice do you have for students during this time to ensure our safety and security?
\nBussie: Now that Canvas is up, it doesn\u2019t matter if you think your password is okay; it\u2019s not. Just change it. Change your password. Take this as a good time to set up a password vault, even if you\u2019re using the one in Safari or whatever one you choose; now is a good time. Also, consider changing your critical passwords. So, Gmail, Outlook, whatever else and then set up that additional factor of authentication. Every app actually makes it pretty easy now. When you go into your settings, there should be something in there that says, \u2018Set up a token or SMS messaging.\u2019
\nI would say, also, look up how to freeze your credit, because this is something that\u2019s kind of a big deal when you go and try to get a credit card, a line of credit, a mortgage or something like that. That is an event [getting hacked] where you\u2019re gonna be thinking about this, so you can go and unfreeze your credit for a week. With how much information the bad guys have about us, you should just have that credit frozen all the time. That\u2019s more of the nuclear option.
\nCasdorph: Is there anything students should look out for going forward?
\nBussie: My prediction is what ShinyHunters is gonna do, and I\u2019m already seeing this in some of the things that are coming back; they are going to start reaching out to you as students, saying, \u2018We have your information. Send us money, send us Bitcoin, or we\u2019re gonna release your stuff.\u2019 Or \u2018We\u2019re going to lock out your personal email, \u2019cause we have that stuff, too.\u2019 They\u2019re gonna make very bold claims. They may not even have this information, but they\u2019re gonna just mess with you and they\u2019re going to say, \u2018Give us money.\u2019
\nForward any [suspicious] email that you get like that, especially if it\u2019s to your student email [to the school] security email or distribution list at your college \u2013 send that message to them. Don\u2019t send them money, don\u2019t click any links. Be very suspicious of emails for the next couple of months. Anything coming from your campus or coming from, like, \u2018Hi, I\u2019m so and so, a security person from Semantic [a cybersecurity company], and I noticed that your system is compromised. I think it\u2019s part of this campus breach.\u2019 Don\u2019t click anything. They\u2019re just trying to steal from you.
\nIf it\u2019s not a message you\u2019re expecting, or it\u2019s not very clearly from your IT or security team on campus, don\u2019t click it, don\u2019t believe it and if you suspect that it\u2019s not something real, don\u2019t look at the message.<\/p>\n

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