How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities

Smashing Security by Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault

May 13, 202664:14Technology

Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced...

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