#Education
All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Education, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
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Frontline Education Breach Exposes School District Employee Data
Frontline Education is notifying districts that a third-party software flaw let attackers steal employee SSNs, emails, and addresses.
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Mount Royal University Confirms Breach as Hackers Claim Attack
Mount Royal University in Calgary has confirmed that hackers breached its network, stole data from file storage systems, and subsequently deleted it —...
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Third-Party Breaches Teach Education Sector a Costly Lesson in Vendor Risk
Rising third-party breach incidents are forcing schools and universities to play defense as ransomware gangs and supply chain attackers increasingly...
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Infinite Campus Data Breach Affects 137,000 School Staff Accounts
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from over 137,000 school staff accounts via a Salesforce data theft attack targeting the widely...
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Ex-School District IT Employee Sentenced to 21 Months for Cyberattacks on Former Employer
A former IT worker at an Iowa school district was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after conducting a sustained cyberattack campaign against his...
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Nottingham University Data Breach Affects Over 450,000 Students
The University of Nottingham has confirmed a data breach impacting over 450,000 current and former students after a hacking group gained unauthorized...
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Government to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas
The House Committee on Homeland Security has demanded a briefing from Instructure, the company behind the Canvas LMS platform, after a ransomware attack...
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Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65 TB Canvas Leak
Educational technology company Instructure, parent of Canvas LMS, has reached an undisclosed 'agreement' with the ShinyHunters extortion group after a...
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
A data extortion attack against Canvas LMS defaced login pages with a ransom demand, disrupting classes and coursework at school districts and...
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Canvas Login Portals Hacked in Mass ShinyHunters Extortion
ShinyHunters has struck education technology giant Instructure again, exploiting a fresh vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals across hundreds of...
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Multiple Universities Forced to Reschedule Final Exams
Dozens of universities were forced to reschedule final examinations after a cybercriminal group displayed threatening messages through Canvas, the widely...
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Edu-Tech Firm Instructure Discloses Cyber Incident, Probes
Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning management system, has disclosed a cybersecurity incident and is investigating its scope....
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ShinyHunters Breach Infinite Campus — K-12 Platform Serving
ShinyHunters claimed a breach of Infinite Campus on March 22, 2026, after gaining access through an employee's Salesforce account. The K-12 student...
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CVE-2026-30884: Critical Authorization Bypass in Moodle
A critical (CVSS 9.6) authorization bypass vulnerability in the moodle-mod_customcert plugin allows any teacher with manage capability in a single course...
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ShinyHunters Dumps Harvard and UPenn Data After Ransom
The ShinyHunters cybercriminal syndicate has published stolen data from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania after both institutions...