"the biggest student data privacy disaster in history" (opens in new tab)

A single point of failure. A hacking group attacked Instructure, the maker of leading learning management system Canvas.This occurred around the end of semester for many schools, creating extra stresses and chaos in the time of final exams, projects, and grades. ShinyHunters claimed to have copied a great deal of private data, then attacked again, demanding ransom for the return of individual campus Canvas instances. As of this writing many Canvas instances are back up, although it's not clea...