Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

slides from an undated SVE box by photographer Hugh Stevens Bell

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Ed-tech giant Instructure confirmed two rounds of unauthorized activity affecting its online learning platform Canvas within two weeks as data-theft-and-extortion crew ShinyHunters threatened to leak data it claims belongs to more than 275 million students, teachers, and staff tied to nearly 9,000 schools worldwide. In a security incident update, Instructure apologized for the disruption when Canvas went offline last Thursday, leaving thousands of colleges, universities, and K-12 schools without access to course materials, grades, and due dates during final exams and Advanced Placement testing for many. As of Saturday, the parent company claimed, “Canvas is fully back online and available for use.” And it finally broke its silence on Monday about what happened, admitting not one but two intrusions after criminals exploited a security vulnerability in its Free-for-Teacher learning system, and saying the data thieves stole information including usernames, email addresses, course names, enrollment information, and messages. “Core learning data (course content, submissions, credentials) was not compromised,” the Monday disclosure said. “We're still validating all findings, but we want to be clear about what we understand was and wasn't affected.” On April 29, the online education firm “detected unauthorized activity in Canvas,” immediately revoked the intruder’s access, and initiated a probe into the breach, according to Instructure’s notice posted on its website. On May 7, the company “identified additional unauthorized activity tied to the same incident.” ShinyHunters defaced about 330 Canvas school login portals, also exploiting the same Free-for-Teacher vulnerability, and that caused the ed-tech firm to take Canvas offline and “into maintenance mode to contain the activity.” ShinyHunters claims it stole 3.65 TB of data, including about 275 million records from about 8,800 schools including Harvard, Columbia, Rutgers, Georgetown, and Stanford universities. After moving the pay-or-leak deadline multiple times, ShinyHunters set a final deadline of end-of-day May 12 for individual institutions to contact them directly to negotiate payment - or the group will publish the full dataset. In response, Instructure said it temporarily shut down its Free-for-Teacher accounts. It also revoked privileged credentials and access tokens tied to compromised systems, rotated internal keys, restricted token creation pathways, and added monitoring across all platforms. The education platform hired CrowdStrike to assist with its forensic analysis and incident response, and said it also notified the FBI - which published its own alert on social media - and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. This is Instructure’s second breach in less than a year. ShinyHunters claimed to have breached Instructure's Salesforce environment in September 2025, and while Instructure didn’t name the crew in its latest disclosure, it did address the intrusion. “The prior Salesforce-related incident and this Canvas security incident are distinct events involving different systems and circumstances,” the company said. ®

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 12-05-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 8.9°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 8.9°C / Max 11.9°C | Kans op neerslag 34%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 8.9°C, Max 11.9°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 34%, 🧭 1012.1 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 26.6 km/u (7.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 328°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 8.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1010.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.2 km/u (7.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°
• 03:00: 8.9°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1011.4 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 24.8 km/u (6.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 320°
• 04:00: 8.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1011.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 323°
• 05:00: 9.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1012.0 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• 06:00: 8.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1012.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 307°
• 07:00: 9.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1012.9 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 311°
• 08:00: 9.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1013.5 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 312°
• 09:00: 9.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1013.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 306°
• 10:00: 10.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1014.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 304°
• 11:00: 11.2°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 309°
• 12:00: 11.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: → 289°
• 13:00: 12.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: → 278°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 13 mei: Min 8.8°C, Max 14.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 17%, 🧭 1002.4 hPa ↘️ -9.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 25.2 km/u (7.0 m/s), richting: → 286°
• donderdag 14 mei: Min 9.0°C, Max 13.5°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 56%, 🧭 998.6 hPa ↘️ -3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 25.9 km/u (7.2 m/s), richting: → 260°
• vrijdag 15 mei: Min 6.6°C, Max 12.1°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 12.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 55%, 🧭 1003.4 hPa ↗️ +4.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 317°
• zaterdag 16 mei: Min 4.9°C, Max 12.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1011.0 hPa ↗️ +7.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.4 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 336°
• zondag 17 mei: Min 6.9°C, Max 12.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 21%, 🧭 1018.1 hPa ↗️ +7.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 329°
• maandag 18 mei: Min 5.8°C, Max 15.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1020.4 hPa ↗️ +2.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 235°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 8.9°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 3.2°C (-5.7°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 26.3 km/u (7.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 51.1 km/h (14.2 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 57%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1010.9 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:54 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:22

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 40 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 3.3 μg/m³
• PM10: 15.1 μg/m³

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