Thousands of students reportedly lost access to Canvas during finals as universities investigate an alleged cybersecurity incident affecting the platform.

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A major privacy breach has rocked thousands of schools and universities across Australia, resulting in private and sensitive data of millions of teachers and students being leaked.

Responsibility for the breach has been claimed by high-profile extortion gang ShinyHunters, a group known for targeting major companies and whose other recent victims include Ticketmaster, AT&T and Pizza Hut, Adidas, Qantas, and Pandora.

The sensitive data of hundreds of thousands of Americans is at risk after a healthcare firm was hit by a cybersecurity attack. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights,

ADT confirmed a data breach exposing customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial SSNs, with millions of records reportedly affected.

A TransUnion cyberattack exposed over 4.4 million people's info. Credit-monitoring services can help you identify if your identity has been compromised.

A data breach is a cyberattack, although not all cyberattacks are data breaches. A good example of this is a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), which is a cyberattack where bad actors disrupt a network by flooding servers with traffic, but do not steal any data.