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Re:Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers by saghm on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:56PM (#48112717)
I have trouble imagining that a ransomware group would care about a regulation like FERPA when they've already done something criminal that would more than enough for prosecution if they got caught.
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Re:Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers by SoftTalker on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:56PM (#48113578)
I didn't mean that the ransomware group would care... but if they got grades, that might be more valuable than if they just had names and emails and other non-very-sensitive stuff.
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Re:Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers by bluGill on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:12PM (#48114672)
Those laws reduce the value though - "honest" people who are interested in such data won't be interested it from ransomware because they need to have legally obtained data. That is there are a lot of "honest but shady" uses of this data that are stopped by these laws.
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