Category: Education

OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack OpenAI says two employees’ devices were breached in the recent TanStack supply chain attack that impacted hundreds of npm and PyPI packages, causing the company to rotate code-signing certificates for its applications as a precaution. […] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer

Instructure confirms data breach, ShinyHunters claims attack Educational tech giant Instructure has confirmed that data was stolen in a cyberattack, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang claiming responsibility. […] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer

University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students. […] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer

Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans. […] Sergiu Gatlan Go to bleepingcomputer

Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned. […] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer

Western Sydney University discloses security breaches, data leak Western Sydney University (WSU) announced two security incidents that exposed personal information belonging to members of its community. […] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer