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Bleeping Computer
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from more than 137,000 school staff accounts in a Salesforce data theft attack that targeted the widely used Infinite Campus K-12 student information system in March. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A former IT employee at an Iowa school district was sentenced to 21 months in prison after conducting a prolonged cyberattack against the former employer that disrupted classroom operations, deleted accounts, and caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages. [...]
The Register
Iowan’s scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker
Graham Cluley
Schools on both sides of the Atlantic have been revealed in recent days to have been hit by hackers, reminding all of us that ransomware gangs see educational instituions as targets all year round. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The Register
Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack
Graham Cluley
Most universities have a careers fair. At Bauman Moscow State Technical University, however, an elite group of students appear to have something rather more unusual: a direct pipeline into some of the world's most notorious state-sponsored hacking groups. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Krebs on Security
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 group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.
Dark Reading
ShinyHunters' attack on Instructure, which owns the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), carries big questions about the trust educational institutions put into their vendors.
Bleeping Computer
The hacker behind a breach at education technology giant Instructure claims to have stolen 280 million data records for students and staff from 8,809 colleges, school districts, and online education platforms. [...]