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A notorious hacking group is claiming one of the largest education-sector data breaches in recent memory. ShinyHunters alleges it has compromised Canvas, a widely used learning management system, and stolen several terabytes of sensitive data. The claimed scale is staggering: personal information belonging to 275 milli...
A major cyberattack by the ShinyHunters threat group has forced Instructure to take the Canvas learning management system offline, disrupting educational operations nationwide. The breach compromised sensitive data belonging to 275 million students and faculty, with attackers defacing login pages and holding the massiv...
The notorious ransomware operation Shinyhunters has publicly named Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) as a target, posting the educational publishing giant to its dark web leak site. The claim appeared on RansomLook, a platform that monitors ransomware group communications, signaling potential exposure of sensitive corpor...
The Canvas learning management system, a critical infrastructure backbone for thousands of educational institutions worldwide, has restored online access following a cyberattack that disrupted operations across multiple schools. The platform, operated by Instructure, handles sensitive academic functions including grade...
ShinyHunters, a notorious threat actor, claims to have stolen 275 million records from Canvas LMS, the learning management system used by thousands of educational institutions worldwide. The breach, confirmed by Instructure on April 29, allegedly exposed usernames, email addresses, student IDs, and billions of private ...
A threat actor operating under the alias ShinyHunters claims to have exfiltrated approximately 275 million records from Canvas LMS, the learning management system operated by Instructure, in a breach that has now affected more than 8,800 educational institutions across the United States and internationally. Instructure...
A ransomware deadline issued by the threat actor ShinyHunters to Instructure, parent company of the widely used Canvas learning management system, expires May 12, raising urgent questions about the status of negotiations and the fate of data belonging to approximately 275 million students across 9,000 educational insti...
A ransomware operation identifying itself as Shinyhunters has claimed responsibility for a breach affecting the data of approximately 275 million students, educators, and staff connected to Canvas, the widely deployed learning management system operated by Instructure. The group asserts it successfully exfiltrated sens...