The EdTech Supply Chain Collapse: Inside the PowerSchool and Canvas Breaches
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Between 2024 and 2026, the educational technology sector suffered a catastrophic supply chain collapse as hackers compromised roughly 350 million records through major platforms like PowerSchool and Canvas. By exploiting weak trust boundaries in shared multi-tenant architectures, threat actors such as the ShinyHunters group moved beyond targeting individual schools to attacking the centralized vendors that thousands of institutions rely on. As a result, schools are left bearing the intense legal and regulatory burdens of notifying their communities, while criminals weaponize both structured identity data and private behavioral context for long-term fraud and extortion.
https://breached.company/san-diego-community-college-district-cyberattack-2026
https://breached.company/instructure-canvas-shinyhunters-275-million-students-breach-2026
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