Canva is free to use and you can create a free account. However, they also do have a pro or premium version which includes tons of more professionally-designed templates and other assets. You can check my brief video review below to learn more about Canva.
Anyway, right now, my main reason for this blog post is alert you about a cyber attack on Canva servers. According to Canva:
"...on Friday, May 24, 2019 we discovered an in-progress attack on our systems. As soon as we were notified we immediately took steps to identify and remedy the cause and have reported the situation to authorities (including the FBI)."
If you already have an account with Canva, you probably already received an email alerting you of this breach. In the email, they went on to say:
"We’re aware that a number of our community’s usernames and email addresses have been accessed. The hackers also obtained passwords in their encrypted form (for technical people: all passwords were salted and hashed with bcrypt). This means that our user passwords remain unreadable by external parties."
That being said, in the email, they also recommended that it's best to change your password. This is what they said: "However, in line with best practices we recommend that you change your Canva password at https://www.canva.com/account."
You can check any further Canva status updates here: https://status.canva.com
This morning we’ve been alerted to a security incident that enabled access to a number of usernames and email addresses. As soon as this happened, we remedied the issue and alerted the authorities. To be overly cautious, we’d recommend changing your password.— Canva (@canva) May 25, 2019
Here is a video I created on Password Best Practices. You can check it to learn the importance of creating strong passwords. It's a good idea to always practice safe password:
And finally, if you're not yet a Canva user, you can check this brief video below on my Canva Review. You can create different types of visual content using Canva. Content like social media post images, social media covers and headers, online and offline banners and flyers, album covers, book covers, and presentations. You can even create brochures, business cards and resumes:
If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments section. Thanks for stopping by!
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