Massive data breach affects schools using Canvas nationwide

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Massive data breach affects schools using Canvas nationwide; Penn reportedly impacted
Universities and schools K-12 across the country, including in the Philadelphia area, have been impacted by a massive data breach targeting a system widely used by students and faculty.

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Data breach affects schools using Canvas; University of Illinois postpones final exams, assignments
Massive Canvas data breach hits colleges across California and nation, crippling student work
Cyberattack shutters Canvas learning platform for schools across the U.S.
A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday due to a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education's dependence on techn...

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Oklahoma schools impacted by Canvas data breach
Many California colleges, universities, public schools impacted by nationwide Canvas breach
WSU Tech, K-State among thousands of schools hit by Canvas data breach
ShinyHunters have breach Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some “security patches.”

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Mass. universities affected by massive data breach targeting student, teacher data
Several SoCal schools impacted by widespread data breach involving Canvas learning software

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The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor.

ShinyHunters breached Canvas LMS maker Instructure, claiming 275M users' data from 9,000 schools. 44 Dutch institutions affected in the largest education data breach ever.

Wake schools: Student, staff information may have been accessed in April data breach

According to school district leaders, they were notified of a cybersecurity incident involving Canvas, a statewide learning management system run by Instructure.

Another data breach impacts CMS students, raising concerns after 2024 hack

The breach comes just over a year after a major hack involving PowerSchool in 2024 exposed sensitive information.

ADT data breach exposes customer information

ADT confirms a new data breach exposing customer names, phone numbers and addresses. The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims it stole millions of records.

Instructure data breach: ShinyHunters says it stole data and private messages from 275 million teachers and students

ShinyHunters says it's behind a recent data breach at edtech giant Instructure. Credit: Piotr Swat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via ShinyHunters have struck once again. This time, the hacker group says it has breached systems belonging to one of the biggest educational tech companies.