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ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack
American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an "agreement" with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened to leak stolen information from thousands of schools and universities
ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercrime group, threatened to leak data from more than 8,800 school systems. The post Instructure claims hackers returned stolen Canvas data after an extortion standoff appeared first on CyberScoop.
UPDATED: Sorry, kids, everything's back up so get to work on your new assignment - An essay on the ethics of paying ransoms, because it looks like that's what happened here
ShinyHunters has escalated its Canvas extortion campaign, defacing hundreds of school login pages and threatening to leak stolen data unless institutions negotiate
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.
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Dartmouth College has disclosed a data breach after the Clop extortion gang leaked data allegedly stolen from the school's Oracle E-Business Suite servers on its dark web leak site. [...]
A school for the Iranian state hackers of tomorrow has itself, ironically, been hacked.
Ravin Academy confirms the intrusion on Telegram, says investigation continues Iran's school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students.…
Harvard University is investigating a data breach after the Clop ransomware gang listed the school on its data leak site, saying the alleged breach was likely caused by a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's E-Business Suite servers. [...]
Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected Scotland's West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the intrusion earlier this month.…
A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to a massive cyberattack on PowerSchool that extorted millions of dollars in exchange for not leaking the personal data of millions of students and teachers. [...]
Now individual school districts extorted by fiends An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers get individually extorted by either the same ransomware crew that hit it – or someone connected to the crooks.…
Experts Say White House AI Plan May Spur Innovation But Leave School Data at RiskThe White House issued an executive order Wednesday to expand the use of new artificial intelligence tools in U.S. K–12 schools, drawing expert warnings over the lack of cybersecurity safeguards to prevent data leaks or misuse by AI firms for model training.
A school district said that PowerSchool paid a ransom to prevent the attackers releasing data it accessed of students and teachers in North America
The Hawaiʻi Community College has admitted that it paid a ransom to ransomware actors to prevent the leaking of stolen data of approximately 28,000 people. [...]
Researchers at the School of Cyber Security at Korea University, Seoul, have presented a new covert channel attack named CASPER can leak data from air-gapped computers to a nearby smartphone at a rate of 20bits/sec. [...]
Confidential data including child passport scans and staff pay scales have been leaked following cyber-attacks in 2022
The Vice Society cybercrime group has disproportionately targeted educational institutions, accounting for 33 victims in 2022 and surpassing other ransomware families like LockBit, BlackCat, BianLian, and Hive