A Canvas hack by ransomware group ShinyHunters has resulted in the theft of billions of messages and the data of over 275 million individuals, including student names, email addresses, and student ID numbers.

[edwardk@infosec.exchange]

A Canvas hack by ransomware group ShinyHunters has resulted in the theft of billions of messages and the data of over 275 million individuals, including student names, email addresses, and student ID numbers. This incident, described as the biggest student data privacy disaster in history, highlights the risks of centralizing sensitive educational data in a single platform, potentially enabling more targeted phishing attacks and exposing deeply personal student information.
https://www.404media.co/the-biggest-student-data-privacy-disaster-in-history-canvas-hack-shows-the-danger-of-centralized-edtech/