00:02On campus, but offline.
00:05Yeah, I have an assignment today, so it needs to be up so I can submit it.
00:09The second day of the Canvas software data breach,
00:12disrupting universities and schools across Australia.
00:15I've written to Federal Minister Jason Clare
00:18because this is an issue that's affecting Tasmania,
00:22Victoria and New South Wales as well.
00:24QUT course materials replaced by this error message.
00:27We actually didn't really know it was down until this morning
00:30when our marks had come out, but we weren't aware of that actually,
00:35so we can't access anything, any materials, no nothing.
00:39I was supposed to go in class this morning
00:41and I was going to do some revision before going
00:42and I couldn't do anything, which was really frustrating.
00:45Queensland's Department of Education shutting down the login page
00:49which takes students to Canvas.
00:50As a preventative action, we've closed the access to QLearn today.
00:55As it remains unclear where the threat originated.
00:59Cyber security experts say many hackers are based in China,
01:02Russia and North Korea.
01:04With exam blocked just weeks from beginning
01:06and revisions in full swing, even a short disruption
01:09has seriously affected student study schedules.
01:13We'll continue to work with our chief information officers
01:16across government and then of course between governments
01:20if we can get a federal response.
01:22Jordan Bissell, ABC News, Brisbane.
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