Last week, Instructure faced two major breaches of security related to “free-for-teacher” accounts. Initially, disabling these accounts seemed like enough to fix the issue, but Instructure is now taking higher measures to ensure an attack like this will never happen again. Early Monday morning, Instructure has announced that Canvas is no longer vulnerable after deleting the entire platform. CEO Stave Daly led a press conference announcing, “We are confident that student data is safe from future cyberattacks. Canvas is no longer online, and is therefor no longer vulnerable.”
Some critics think the move took things too far, but others warn that this may not be enough. “Instructure is still a company. What happens if they just turn around and recreate Canvas?”, an anonymous student said. “I don’t want anyone seeing that I failed English.”