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1 week agoGovernment to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach
Instructure faced repeated Canvas intrusions, exploited Free-For-Teacher issues, and is temporarily shutting accounts while the House Homeland Security Committee demands incident details.
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1 week agoCybersecurity Is No Longer a Gatekeeper, But the Engine of Delivery Across Digital Economy
Cybersecurity is a top fast-growing skill and must be integrated into product delivery, since both protection gaps and misconfigured controls can cause outages, breaches, and lost trust.
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1 week agoGovernment to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach
Instructure faced repeated Canvas intrusions, exploited Free-For-Teacher issues, and is temporarily shutting accounts while the House Homeland Security Committee demands incident details.
fromNextgov.com
1 day agoHouse Homeland Dems request CISA briefing amid report of leaked agency credentials
We demand a briefing as soon as possible on how this serious security lapse occurred, any potential security consequences, remediation activities, corrective actions related to the contractor personnel involved, and efforts to monitor for and prevent similar activity from occurring in the future, wrote Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the committee's ranking member, and Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois, the ranking member of the panel's cyber subcommittee, in a Tuesday letter shared with Nextgov/FCW.
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1 day agoCustomers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information | TechCrunch
I know that because sadly I am one of those customers whose mailing address, email address, you know, everything short of credit card number is being leaked. "Do not order on trumpmobile.com unless you're ready for your information to be leaked. It's basically that bad."
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5 days agoCanvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?
Instructure reached an agreement with ransomware attackers after student data theft, login page defacement, and assignment delays, with experts suspecting ransom payment.
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1 week agoFoxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files
A ransomware attack hit Foxconn’s North American operations, disrupting some factories but enabling resumption of normal production after response measures.
fromSecurityWeek
3 days ago7-Eleven Data Breach Confirmed After ShinyHunters Ransom Demand
7-Eleven has started sending out security incident notices revealing that an intrusion into 7-Eleven systems used to store franchisee documents was detected on April 8. According to a notification submitted to the Maine Attorney General's Office, unspecified personal information has been compromised. The exposed information was provided to the company during franchise applications.
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6 days agoIn Other News: Big Tech vs Canada Encryption Bill, Cisco's Free AI Security Spec, Audi App Flaws
GeForce NOW user data was exposed via a partner breach, while the FCC extended update timelines for covered foreign routers and OpenAI sought EU access to a cyber-focused GPT variant.
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1 week agoNobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data
Instructure claims stolen data was destroyed and no customers will be extorted, but ransomware researchers doubt deletion and warn further threats are likely.
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fromTNW | Data-Security
2 weeks agoShinyHunters breach Instructure Canvas LMS, claim 275M users and 3.65TB of student data from 9,000 schools including 44 Dutch institutions
Hackers exploited Instructure’s Canvas systems, stealing 3.65TB of student and staff data from 275M users across thousands of institutions, including private messages.
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fromtheregister
1 week agoNobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data
Instructure claims stolen data was destroyed and no customers will be extorted, but ransomware researchers doubt deletion and warn further threats are likely.
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fromTNW | Data-Security
2 weeks agoShinyHunters breach Instructure Canvas LMS, claim 275M users and 3.65TB of student data from 9,000 schools including 44 Dutch institutions
Hackers exploited Instructure’s Canvas systems, stealing 3.65TB of student and staff data from 275M users across thousands of institutions, including private messages.
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1 week agoCivil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles
Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will gather outside Capita's AGM at Sheldon Square, London, from 9:45am on May 18 to demand that the government strips the outsourcer of responsibility for administering civil service pensions after months of delays, botched portal launches, missing payments, bereavement failures, and a data breach that exposed members' personal information.
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1 week agoBWH Hotels Says Hackers Had Access to Reservation Data for 6 Months
Emails sent to customers affected by the data breach reveal that the intrusion was discovered on April 22, and an investigation showed that threat actors had access since October 14, 2025.
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fromThe Verge
2 weeks agoCanvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools' data
Canvas learning management platform experienced a major outage following a data breach affecting millions of students, with hacking group ShinyHunters demanding ransom before releasing stolen data.
fromArs Technica
3 weeks agoWhy a recent supply-chain attack singled out security firms Checkmarx and Bitwarden
Current evidence indicates that this data originated from Checkmarx's GitHub repositories, and that access to those repositories was facilitated through the initial supply chain attack of March 23, 2023.
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3 weeks agoPitney Bowes the latest victim of ShinyHunters' breach-spree
Data breach tracker Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) confirmed the breach on April 27, with 8.2 million unique email addresses included in the dump alongside names, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
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