🇨🇦 275 Million Records Exposed — And Your Tuition Still Went Up

Canvas goes down, ShinyHunters claims the data of students and faculty from UofT to UBC, and suddenly universities are scrambling to explain how millions of personal records sat vulnerable on a platform they trusted with zero redundancy. Names, emails, student numbers, personal messages — all potentially bundled with previous leaks to build synthetic identities for fraud. But here's the punchline: these institutions spent the last decade hiring DEI coordinators, building land acknowledgment committees, and expanding admin bloat while their actual infrastructure remained a house of cards.

Meanwhile, experts warn it could take years for victims to realize they've been burned. No passwords or financials compromised, they say — as if that softens the blow when your identity gets Frankensteined into a mortgage scam. Canadian universities have become expensive daycares with catastrophic IT security, and somehow parents are still writing the cheques.

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