Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. After pleading guilty to hacking and extorting from ed tech giant PowerSchool, 19-year-old Matthew Lane was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison and nearly $14.1 million in restitution. The Massachusetts college student was accused of using...Read More
On March 30, BeyondTrust proved that a crafted GitHub branch name could steal Codex’s OAuth token in cleartext. OpenAI classified it Critical P1. Two days later, Anthropic’s Claude Code source code spilled onto the public npm registry, and within hours, Adversa found Claude Code silently ignored its own deny rules once a command exceeded 50...Read More
Yes, GrubHub was hacked. Last week, on Jan 16th 2026, the food ordering platform confirmed to BleepingComputer that it had been affected by a recent data breach. A company spokesperson stated that the company is aware of an incident in which threat actors downloaded data from GrubHub systems. GrubHub has not yet confirmed what type...Read More
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A nationwide hack tied to the Canvas learning management system is affecting schools and universities in Nevada, disrupting students as they prepare for finals and raising concerns about what information could be exposed. The Nevada System of Higher Education and the Clark County School District said they are aware of a...Read More
Education tech giant Instructure has confirmed a data breach affecting students’ private information. The hacking and extortion gang ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach. The hackers claim to have stolen students’ names, their personal email addresses, and messages sent between teachers and students — the same type of data Instructure admitted was stolen. Instructure is...Read More
An educational institution says the personal data of some of its students has been compromised, following a cybersecurity attack on an international learning management system. A security breach of the cloud-based Canvas learning management system, developed by American company Instructure, occurred on Saturday, May 2 (Australian time). It is used by schools, universities and vocational...Read More
Tens of thousands of Canadian taxpayers have been targeted in Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) data breaches since 2020, according to Canada’s privacy watchdog. The CRA reported a total of 42,755 confirmed individual data breaches to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) since 2020. Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne shared the report with Parliament...Read More
On Tuesday, education tech giant Instructure disclosed a data breach where hackers stole students’ private information, including their names, personal email addresses, and messages sent between teachers and students. Now, it appears hackers were able to compromise Instructure again — this time defacing several schools’ login pages to the company’s platform Canvas, which allows schools...Read More
New York — A cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials — at a time when many are taking or preparing for final exams. Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms, has more than 30 million active users...Read More
A “security incident” impacting a popular classroom software caused issues for students at schools across the U.S. on Thursday, including Chicago-area universities like Northwestern and Dominican. Around 2:50 p.m., reports of issues with Canvas, a learning management system used by roughly 40% of higher education institutions in North America, began popping up on Down Detector....Read More
