ABC News⁠98%

Data of over 275 million students, teachers stolen in cyberattack on Canvas ⁠98%

5/9/2026, 12:30:39 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Availability Heuristic, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 74.8% saturation with 234 hits. Analysis detected 1,377 faulty-reasoning hits from 313 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 96.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠98% (436 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.40% of the video peer group.

story this Friday night. Tens of thousands of students affected across this country in a massive cyber attack against Canvas, an online platform used by thousands of students K through 12, colleges, universities. The attack happening just as final exams are underway and what hackers say they stole. 
Here's Matt Rivers now. 
Tonight, more than 275 million people's data stolen in a massive cyber attack that shut down Canvas, an online tool used by schools across the country, middle schools, high schools, and colleges in the middle of final exams. 
>> It's unbelievable. 
>> The program is used by teachers and students to upload assignments, communicate with each other, study, and check grades. 
>> All my lecture materials on it. Some students logging on yesterday were greeted by this ransom note from the hacking group Shiny Hunters warning their schools to negotiate a settlement. 
You have till the end of the day by 12 May 2026 before everything is leaked. 
>> My computer turned black and it said warning because your institution refused to pay the ransom. 
We um we will release the information. 
The hackers say they accessed users personal data, including names, email addresses, student IDs, and several billions of private messages among students and teachers. 
>> It's kind of scary to think about how close we are to the finish line really and having to worry about our information getting leaked. 
>> David, tonight Canvas is back online, but with questions about the safety of students data. 
Some universities still postponing their final exams. 
Canvas's parent company, Instructure, saying they quote found no evidence that the threat actor currently has access to the platform and they are putting additional protections in place. 
>> yeah, this was really rattling for so 
many students and their families. Matt, thank you. 
Confirmation Bias
8.9%
Anchoring Bias
35.1%
Availability Heuristic
38.3%
Representativeness Heuristic
12.1%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
38%
Loss Aversion
8.3%
Status Quo Bias
2.2%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
8.3%
Negativity Bias
65.5%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
8.9%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
5.1%
Primacy Effect
1.3%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
20.1%
False Dilemma
5.1%
Slippery Slope
2.2%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
41.2%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
2.6%
Appeal to Emotion
74.8%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
8.9%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
23.6%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
28.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
1%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

313 words analyzed.

Analysis

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