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Newsletter AD Fall 2025
The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet
Finneas Brumbaugh

Finneas Brumbaugh, News/DEI Editor

(he/they)

Finneas Brumbaugh is a senior political science and journalism major in his fourth semester at The State Hornet. He was born and raised in San Francisco and hopes to become an investigative reporter after graduation. In his free time, he enjoys drawing, writing and cooking.

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The message from the hacker group ShinyHunters appeared on the screen when students logged onto Canvas Thursday, May 7, 2026. The message included a list of schools and a deadline to negotiate the settlement. (Made in Canva by Anita Ratna Gautam)

BREAKING: Canvas hacked for a second time, student’s personal information held for ransom

Data was stolen from 9,000 schools, including Sac State and six other CSU campuses.
Finneas Brumbaugh, News/DEI Editor
May 7, 2026
The hacker group ShinyHunters hacked Canvas for a second time, claiming to have stolen more than 3.65TB of personal student data from over 9,000 schools. The group said that if Instructure, the company that owns and operates Canvas, does not respond to their ransom demands by Tuesday all the data will be leaked publicly.
Firefighters work to contain a fire that ravaged a vacant building less than a mile away from campus Tuesday, April 24, 2026. There have been no reported injuries or deaths, Sacramento Fire Department is still investigating the cause of the fire.

BREAKING: ‘Suspicious’ fire breaks out a mile away from campus

The fire has since been contained, there are no known injuries or deaths
Finneas Brumbaugh, News/DEI Editor
April 14, 2026
A fire was reported in a vacant building at the corner of University Avenue and Campus Commons Road at 4:15 p.m. just over a mile away from Sac State across the river. The cause of the fire is currently being investigated, with no injuries or deaths reported as of 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
Carreño trabaja en su computadora portátil cerca de Sacramento Hall el martes 9 de septiembre de 2025. Dijo que, aunque a los estudiantes de primer año se les asignarán horarios a través de Hornet Launch, los estudiantes transferidos pueden quedarse atrás, ya que son los últimos en inscribirse en las clases.

Demasiados estudiantes, no suficientes clases: Los estudiantes luchan por las clases a medida que aumenta el número de estudiantes entrantes

Estudiantes se pelean por las clases a medida que aumenta el número de nuevos estudiantes entrantes
Melanie Arechiga and Finneas Brumbaugh
September 17, 2025

This article is also available in English. Esta historia se publica conjuntamente con CapRadio. Durante los dos años anteriores trabajando como líder de orientación en la Universidad Estatal de...

An email confirming the results of the election was sent out to workers on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Workers at Associated Students Inc. voted to be represented by the CSUEU, joining many other campuses where ASI workers are unionized.

[Photo] BREAKING: ASI workers vote to unionize

Jada Portillo, Digital/Newsletter Editor
May 9, 2025

An email confirming the results of the election was sent out to workers on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Workers at Associated Students Inc. voted to be represented by the CSUEU, joining many other campuses where...

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