Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
Source summary: An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions. A screenshot shared by a reader showing the extortion message that was shown on the Canvas login page today. …
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