Universities, K-12 districts, and ed-tech vendors hold massive student-record databases that attract identity-theft operations and ransomware groups. Below is every education-sector breach LeakTrace has indexed.
The Supreme Court of California has ruled in J.M. v. Illuminate Education, Inc., a case closely watched by those concerned about holding edtech vendors liable in the event of a data breach. As background on the case: In
Educational tech firm Instructure reached a deal with hackers after a major Canvas breach exposed data stolen from schools and universities. Educational tech firm Instructure says it reached an agreement with the cybercr
Instructure has reached an agreement with the ShinyHunters group to return and destroy stolen Canvas data, protecting millions of student records from a public leak.
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is calling on Instructure executives to testify about two cyberattacks by the ShinyHunters extortion group that targeted the company's Canvas platform, allowing threat actors
Breaches involving school-related vendors such as PowerSchool and Instructure are causing major headaches for schools, students, and parents. They are also getting more attention from Congress. While some breaches have n
Education technology giant Instructure has confirmed that a security vulnerability allowed hackers to modify Canvas login portals and leave an extortion message. [...]
ShinyHunters has escalated its Canvas extortion campaign, defacing hundreds of school login pages and threatening to leak stolen data unless institutions negotiate
The ed tech company that operates Canvas said information impacted by the data breach includes messages, names, email addresses and student ID numbers.
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 gro
The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting another vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and universities. [...]
Taiwan high‑speed rail was disrupted after a 23‑year‑old student spoofed signals and triggered an emergency alarm, stopping four trains for nearly an hour. Taiwan high‑speed rail system, one of the most important pieces
A 23-year-old university student in Taiwan was arrested for interfering with the TETRA communication system used by the country's high-speed railway network (THSR). [...]
Hackers disrupted services and stole names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and user messages. The post Edtech Firm Instructure Discloses Data Breach Amid Hacker Leak Threats appeared first on SecurityWeek.
THV11 News reports: Pine Bluff School District Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Barbaree broke her silence Monday evening after a cyberattack that cost the district millions. According to district officials, the incident happ
A DataBreaches.net Editorial The “BlueLeaks 2.0” data breach may be the worst privacy and data security breach affecting students that DataBreaches has seen in 20 years of reporting on breaches affecting the
Hyun Su-a reports: Duo Info, South Korea’s top matchmaking company, leaked the personal information of 430,000 members, authorities said. The leaked items went far beyond names and email addresses to include religi
Alexander Martin reports: A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland after a cyberattack disrupted access to educational systems used by potentially hundreds of thousands of students. The boy, who has not be
13,500,136 records exposed — Email addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland after a cyberattack disrupted access to educational systems used by potentially hundreds of thousands of students.
Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. [...]
192K+ student records with SSNs, birth dates, driver licenses
2.3M student records from 23 campuses exposed via compromised PeopleSoft instance
340K student records including visa and financial information exposed in targeted attack
623,750 records exposed — Charitable donations, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders and 7 more