
Like what are you gonna do with 20 million peoples private dms where roughly 95% are just asking basic questions, like you arent gonna find much of anything too special, even if they sold that data like cool our data has already been sold, go back to trying to resell pokemon cards and being unemployed
Most of it is not original content. So the answers for most canvas exam questions and assignments exist already. The only thing they might have is select student information. LMSs don’t contain much sensitive information, merely names and student IDs. No addresses, no billing information, no real identification data either.
i think part of the concern is that having a bunch of emails and email addresses will make ppl more vulnerable to scams. like if you got an email that looks like its from a professor and it has the signature they usually use and it says "click this link to turn in this assignment, its 5 days late and i dont have it" a lot if ppl prob wouldnt investigate further
Except most emails associated with the LMS are school emails, by default most school outlook emails sort the incoming emails from addresses outside of the domain (ie not @schoolname.outlook.edu) to spam. Plus I don’t think anyone would be dumb enough to input their sensitive data into a phishing link that’s supposed to be from their professor. Why would your professor ask for your card number or social security number?
i agree on the spam thing (my school adds a giant header that says "THIS IS FROM OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL"), but making all that info public means its easier for other ppl to try it. it just takes one kid whos pulling an all-nighter or recovering after a party to click the wrong thing, and hackers dont have to be after the school; they can make money just from the account that paid that kids tuition. and tbh these days scams dont have to ask for your private info bc ai bs records a lot of it
Okay but just clicking on a link isn’t enough to compromise your device. The only thing you could do is accidentally click on an ip grabber, which may reveal what town you’re located in. Harmful software would have to be downloaded, and personal data would still have to be phished. It’s not a simple one click mistake, it’s the result of repeated negligence on an external link like that.