If your kid does homework through Canvas, listen up. Hackers stole 3.65 terabytes of data, including names, emails, student ID numbers and billions of private messages between kids and teachers. They’ve given Canvas’ parent company 48 hours to pay or they leak everything. Here’s exactly what to do before the clock runs out. If your...Read More
App and website hosting giant Vercel on Thursday said hackers had accessed some of its customers’ data before the company discovered its recent data breach, suggesting that this incident may have broader security implications than initially known. In an update on its security incident page, Vercel said it had identified evidence of malicious activity on...Read More
Chennai: A day after the Union govt sought help from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur to sort out the technical issues faced by the CBSE’s online portal, IIT Madras director V Kamakoti said the site might have faced a cyberattack, which could have denied access and payment for scanned copies of Class XII answer scripts.Due...Read More
Photo illustration by Emma Spainhoward with photograph by Getty Images. Good morning. A decent day ahead: sunny, warming to a high around 69. Clear overnight with a low near 46. You can find me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below. Subscribers to the email version of...Read More
A criminal extortion group claims to have stolen 275 million records from Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas platform. WASHINGTON — A cybersecurity attack on the nation’s most widely used classroom software has potentially exposed the personal data of millions of students and educators across the country. Instructure, the company that runs the...Read More
Frequently Asked Questions: Booking.com Data Breach What happened in the Booking.com data breach? Booking.com confirmed that unauthorized third parties accessed customer data tied to travel reservations. Exposed information could include names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, and booking details. The company has contained the issue and notified affected customers. Was my payment information stolen in...Read More
“It was by accident,” Saber told The Diplomat when asked how the white hat hacker and their partner cyb0rg discovered what appears to be one of the most comprehensive known penetrations of the South Korean government’s digital infrastructure in recent memory. The two independent security researchers, only identified by their pseudonyms, claim to have compromised...Read More
Jones Day acknowledged that an “unauthorised third party accessed a limited number of dated files for 10 clients” and that all affected clients have been notified. The attackers claimed they focused on the head of the firm’s Federal Circuit team, supposedly referring to Greg Castanias. Jones Day declined to identify the clients or the specific...Read More
More than 40 percent of colleges and universities use Canvas. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | SuperCubePL/iStock/Getty Images The higher education sector got another reminder over the weekend that it remains a prime target for cybercriminals. Hackers who have stolen data from Ticketmaster, Google and several high-profile universities kicked off the month of...Read More
Canvas, a platform used by over 8,000 universities and K-12 schools for course websites, assignments and communication, shut down for several hours on Thursday. A hacking group claimed responsibility for a data breach affecting the company that owns the platform, jeopardizing the personal data of millions of students and teachers. Instructure, which provides Canvas to...Read More
