""This breach follows a clear pattern we've been watching for the last 18 months. Instead of targeting individual campuses, attackers are moving up the data supply chain to the platforms that sit underneath thousands of institutions at once.""
"ShinyHunters has also victimized education-technology vendors, previously breaching Salesforce and claiming theft of one billion customer records across dozens of companies, including Instructure."
The higher education sector faces significant cyber threats, exemplified by a recent breach of Instructure, affecting nearly 9,000 schools and compromising personal data of 275 million individuals. The criminal group ShinyHunters has been linked to multiple high-profile breaches, indicating a trend where attackers target third-party vendors rather than individual institutions. Experts note that this shift allows cybercriminals to access vast amounts of data across numerous educational entities simultaneously, highlighting the vulnerabilities in the education technology landscape.
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