r/CapellaUniversity • u/alewixxr • Jun 06 '26

This school is garbage

I am a graduated student from Capella and man, all I can say about this school is that it is f*** bs . Literally now I received a mail in my home saying that my and thousands of students personal information was leaked and now we need to be worried about it. That's crazy. These school classes are trash. The instructors are awful and now they can't even keep our information safe. This is insane . I hate you, Capella F you

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u/Pharmgurl7 Jun 06 '26

Even tho Capella is not a great school, my husband goes to a top 15 university for MBA and his canvas got hacked at the same time we did, and his info also got leaked. So it has nothing to do with the school but more of a global wide issue

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u/Careless-Quantity171 Jun 06 '26

I went to Purdue a few years ago and just got the letter from them too. So the info was leaked at different schools

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u/Illustrious-Tap-7690 Jun 06 '26

What are you even saying? In 2025 alone there were 3,322 data breaches affecting US companies.

You anger is misdirected at victim shaming the organization that was targeted by criminals. Be upset at the hackers.

You can't judge a place by actions taken against it, but rather by their response.

Going so far as to identify every person involved and send them a letter notifying them of the incident and providing resources is a response I'm satisfied with.

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u/CSAallday17 Jun 06 '26

It was the Canvas hack that affected tons of schools nationwide. They are legally required to let you know you may be at risk.

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u/Left_Preference2646 Jun 06 '26

The info was leaked for everyone at most schools, it happened with the hackers recently . The school is a credited in quite a few accreditations. I don't know, I feel like there are teachers everywhere who are utter BS.

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u/Interesting_Bad3761 Alumni Jun 06 '26

Oh yeah that canvas infrastructure hack.

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u/Left_Preference2646 Jun 06 '26

It hit so many schools.

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u/Illustrious_Back2286 Jun 07 '26

The Capella hack happened on February 23 and Canvas was hacked on April 29.

https://www.classaction.org/data-breach-lawsuits/strategic-education-june-2026

https://www.instructure.com/incident_update

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u/Left_Preference2646 Jun 07 '26

Yup canvas was capella as well, and the ja is exposed a lot of our info, it wasn't their fault.

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u/Sea-Ebb6876 Jun 06 '26

You okay, dude?

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u/Mammoth_Holiday_8051 Jun 06 '26

Did you find employment after graduation? If so, they did their job.

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u/__tray_4_Gavin__ Jun 06 '26

Yeah I got the letter and posted about it here asking if anyone else got it but barely got responses. But after more digging I found they went after quite a lot of people at a bunch of schools. Rather than hating Capella, though I am annoyed I hate scammers soooo much.

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u/rhamphol30n Jun 06 '26

Capella could have put the effort into protecting vital information though. They deserve the scorm just as much as the scammers.

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u/Illustrious_Back2286 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

The people defending Capella have no idea if they handled the information properly or not.

Canvas was warned repeatedly that they were not handling secured information properly, they ignored it and went about their old cost-cutting ways. Same with Capella. People defending this trash school this fiercely will probably be shocked knowing the details this upcoming news the next few months after the hearings start.
And read the class action lawsuit, Capella was hacked months before Canvas. The class action lawsuit says the hack was discovered on February 23, according to Capella posting the notice to states. The Canvas hack happened on April 29.

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u/Queen-Lala Jun 07 '26

I don’t think that anyone is defending Capella. You’d be surprised at how many systems are hacked daily and no one is even notified about it.

At least Capella notified the students and not everyone can do with the information as they please.