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ShinyHunters: Instructure breach affects 275 million teachers and students

Mashable·Matt Binder·28 days ago
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ShinyHunters have struck once again. This time, the hacker group says it has breached systems belonging to one of the biggest educational tech companies. Edtech giant Instructure, the company behind the popular Learning Management System (LMS) Canvas, announced that it was experiencing a service disruption on April 30.  The next day, on May 1, the company confirmed that it experienced a "cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor."  Instructure largely addressed the issues by May 2 and shared that it would continue to monitor its platforms and investigate how the cyberattack occurred. The company said it patched its security system, revoked certain credentials and access tokens, and rotated API keys "out of an abundance of caution." ShinyHunters, the now-infamous hacking collective known for social engineering and ransomware, claimed responsibility and uploaded 3.65 terabytes of related stolen data to its website on May 3, as reported by SecurityWeek . What data was stolen?…

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