Hackers steal students’ data during breach at education tech giant Instructure

The data breach at education tech giant Instructure includes students' private data, according to a sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch.
Inside Higher Ed

International Students by the Numbers

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump and his administration have acted aggressively against international students, including instituting widespread changes to their legal status and ...
Brisbane Times

Students’ names, staff data compromised in state school cyberattack

More than five years of Queensland state school student and staff data has been compromised after a cyberattack breached the Education Department’s online learning platform. A statement from Education ...
WRAL

'Security patches' put student learning system back online after hack

A web-based learning management system containing teachers' and students' data across North Carolina and the United States is back online after being breached, with one group claiming responsibility ...
The Next Web

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

ShinyHunters breached Instructure’s Canvas learning management system, claiming 3.65 terabytes of data from 275 million users across 9,000 institutions worldwide, including private messages between ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Canvas data breach leaves education providers scrambling as student data compromised

Thousands of education providers have been affected by a global data breach, including universities, vocational providers and some state schools in Australia. Names, locations of study, email ...
Fox News

Hackers threaten to leak data from 275M users after breaching major college platform used nationwide

Thousands of students across the U.S. were unable to access the Canvas learning platform Thursday as universities investigated a cybersecurity incident affecting multiple institutions. Canvas, a cloud ...
The Conversation

Hackers just stole data from 9,000 schools and unis around the world. How can we protect student privacy?

This week, US-based education technology provider Instructure announced a significant cybersecurity incident affecting its Canvas system. This is used by schools and universities around the world, ...
Inside Higher Ed

International Student Visas Revoked

As of April 24, over 280 colleges and universities have identified 1,800-plus international students and recent graduates who have had their legal status changed by the State Department. On April 25, ...
Mashable

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 Getty Images ShinyHunters have struck once again. This time, the hacker ...
Bleeping Computer

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. Instructure is a U.S.-based education technology ...