The group has also been linked with attacks on Ticketmaster, Rockstar Games, Salesforce, and Australian flag carrier Qantas.

Criminal hacker and extortion group ShinyHunters claimed to have breached Canvas parent company Instructure, shutting down access to Canvas for students and faculty Thursday. Canvas serves as Stanford’s “primary learning management system” and services 2,400 instructors and 19,000 students in 2,000 courses each quarter.

Edtech company Instructure says names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages were stolen in a cyberattack.

This week's hack into information from almost 9,000 schools included personally identifying data. It was not the first big edtech breach.

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Joey Melo explains how he uses jailbreaking and data poisoning to manipulate AI guardrails and harden machine learning models against attacks.

The movie leaked months ahead of its premiere on Paramount+. An anonymous X account claimed that a Nickelodeon employee emailed him the entire film, though that appears not to be the case.

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