Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history – affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas’s parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed “security patches” instead, the hackers were less than impressed. So they came back through the cat flap. Meanwhile, a famous…
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Instructure settles with hackers following massive student data theft
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 cybercrime group behind a major Canvas data theft, after attackers broke into its systems and threatened to publish stolen information from schools and…
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Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak
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. In an update shared on Monday, the Utah-based firm said it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized…
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Instructure confirms data breach, ShinyHunters claims attack
Educational tech giant Instructure has confirmed that data was stolen in a cyberattack, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang claiming responsibility. […]
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Wargame Exercise Demonstrates How Social Media Manipulation Works
In an educational game called “Capture the Narrative,” students created bots to sway a fictional election, simulating influence in real-world political scenarios.
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U.S. Public Sector Under Siege: Threat Intelligence for Q1 2026
The first quarter of 2026 has reinforced a hard truth: U.S. government agencies and educational institutions are operating in the most hostile cyber threat environment ever recorded.