🇨🇦 Largest Educational Hack in History Hits Ontario Universities—Cloud Dependency Bites Hard

U of T, OCAD, Western, Mohawk, and Ontario Tech just confirmed they're caught in what security experts call the biggest education IT breach ever. Canvas, the U.S.-based learning platform holding names, emails, student IDs, and messages, got ransacked twice—criminals came back for seconds, defaced login pages, and demanded payment. Free-for-teacher accounts were the exploit vector. Thousands of institutions handed over student data to a foreign cloud vendor with zero redundancy plan.

This is what happens when you outsource critical infrastructure to Silicon Valley SaaS platforms and pretend sovereignty doesn't matter. Canadian students' personal data sitting on American servers, breached by organized criminals, with universities shrugging and issuing damage-control statements. No passwords or financial info stolen this time—how comforting. Maybe host your own systems or accept that convenience costs control. Digital colonialism has consequences.

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