The cybersecurity world is reeling from a massive data breach at an educational tool Canvas orchestrated by the notorious hacking group ShinyHunters, causing significant disruption to thousands of schools and universities across the United States.

Canvas is usually used by schools, colleges and universities for grades and other class materials. In the aftermath of being hacked, the students were unable to gain access to the site beginning on Thursday afternoon.

As per hackers’ claims, they have access to 280 million student and staff records from 8,809 colleges, school districts and online educational platforms. Universities like Harvard, Stanford and thousands of other institutions have been hit the worst.

The downtime occurred during finals week for many students, complicating grading, exams outcomes and assignment submissions.

Soon after the complaints regarding Canvas outage began to pour in on........

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