A major classroom tool called Canvas crashed right when students needed it most—during finals week. Teachers use this system to post assignments, run exams, and share grades. When it vanished, everyone scrambled to find backups. The timing couldn’t have been worse. Behind the outage was a group cal
Utah’s schools, from elementary to university, are on high alert after a nationwide attack on the Canvas learning platform. The breach, carried out by a group called ShinyHunters, hit nearly 9, 000 schools worldwide and exposed billions of private messages. The hackers threatened to leak the data bu
A group of curious internet users found a way into a restricted AI tool called Mythos Preview. They didn’t use advanced hacking skills—just careful detective work. After studying a breach at an AI training company, they guessed where Mythos was hosted and accessed it. They even found other unrelease
Schoolbook publisher McGraw Hill discovered a gap in its online defenses this April that let outsiders view 13. 5 million user files stored on Salesforce. The hole came from a simple setup mistake, not a hacker tunneling through complex code. Attackers calling themselves ShinyHunters grabbed the exp
A huge chunk of recent cloud breaches—around two-thirds—happened not because thieves guessed passwords or tricked people, but because businesses left digital keys lying around. These aren’t keys for humans logging in—they’re for scripts, apps, and AIs doing their jobs automatically. Some systems spr
A major crypto exchange recently faced a security issue that didn't come from hackers breaking into systems, but from staff misusing their access. Two employees looked at customer support data they shouldn't have, potentially viewing details from about 2, 000 accounts. While the exchange says no mon
A huge problem has been found. A database with 149 million login details was left unprotected on a cloud service. This included 900, 000 Apple account details. The discovery was made by a security researcher who found a similar issue last year. Last year, the same researcher found another unsecured
Nike is in hot water after a group of cybercriminals claimed to have stolen a massive amount of data from the company. The hackers, known as World Leaks, said they published 1. 4 terabytes of data related to Nike's business operations. Nike has not confirmed the breach, but they are investigating th
The Dutch government is considering a new tax plan that could shake up the investment world. The idea is to tax not just the profits people make when they sell investments, but also the potential profits they could make, even if they haven't sold anything yet. This includes stocks, bonds, and crypto
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Over the past year, employees within this department have been caught accessing and sharing sensitive personal data of millions of Americans without proper authorization. The Trump administration has
