St. Petersburg College suffers data leak linked to cyber-attack
SpilloverSpillover from the another organisation incident · View original incident →St. Petersburg College suffered a data leak linked to a cyber-attack. The type and volume of the leaked information, the date of the incident and the response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- St. Petersburg College
- Original incident
- Canvas learning platform hack leaks pupil data and disrupts lessons
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that St. Petersburg College had suffered a data leak linked to a cyber-attack.
Original incident
This is spillover from the another organisation incident.
Canvas learning platform hack leaks pupil data and disrupts lessons
275mImpact: Student and staff data compromised and lessons, assignments and exams disrupted; 8,809 educational institutions and 275 million users according to the attackers
The Canvas learning platform was hacked, giving access to student and staff data and disrupting the use of assignment and exam tools. ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen data from 8,809 educational institutions and 275 million users worldwide and threatened to publish it. Security patches were applied and services restored, but a repeat breach and service disruption were also reported.
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