Instructure Breach Exposes Schools' Vendor Dependence
ShinyHunters' attack on Instructure, which owns the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), carries big questions about the trust educational institutions put into their vendors.
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ShinyHunters' attack on Instructure, which owns the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), carries big questions about the trust educational institutions put into their vendors.
Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report highlighted dire — but not new — trends in the education sector. Without more help, faculty and staff continue to fall for social engineering campaigns and make simple security errors.
The Malek Team, which previously hit a private college in Israel, claims responsibility for a hack of Israel's Ziv Medical Center.
Last week, the department uncovered a data breach that occurred back in June stemming from what it deems to be a cybersecurity ransomware incident.
"Hundreds" of special education students' psych records have turned up on the Dark Web. School records like these are covered by FERPA, not HIPAA, so parents have little recourse.
Weeks after it breached the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Vice Society ransomware group is threatening to leak the stolen data, unless they get paid.