Infamous cyber extortion group ShinyHunters gives the professional services giant until the end of the month to pay up or face a data leak. “Yes, it was us.” That’s how the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed responsibility for a cyber incident first...

Instructure/Canvas breach, which saw schools across the country impacted by a third-party breach perpetrated by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group, one finding is particularly galling. According to the Audit Office, while 98 per cent of schools use...

Nissan pins employee data breach on Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day as ShinyHunters hacking spree continues. Car maker Nissan began informing current and former employees late last week of a data breach driven by a vulnerability in the software used to...

CVE-2026-35273 last week – but hackers had already been exploiting it for almost two weeks. The cyber extortion group ShinyHunters is a past master at taking advantage of vulnerabilities in widely used platforms, and according to recent reporting from...

a threat actor. Earlier this year, GTA V developer Rockstar Games also confirmed a cyber attack, after infamous hackers ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a breach of cloud data platform Snowflake. The hackers listed Rockstar Games as a victim in...

The confirmed cyber incident impacting Carnival Cruise Line was reportedly the action of infamous threat group ShinyHunters. Based on reports, the incident allegedly occurred when ShinyHunters breached the cruise operator’s supply chain, when a...

the incident.” While 7-Eleven did not mention the number of people impacted or identify the threat actor, infamous group ShinyHunters claimed the incident and has leaked allegedly stolen files online. “Over 600k Salesforce records containing PII and...

Following the ShinyHunters Instructure hack, the morals of paying a ransom to cyber criminals have been a hot-button issue, but what do you really need to know before considering making that payment? A lot of organisations are pretty firm about whether...

the recent resolution: We have nothing to add on or comment regarding the recent situation at the LMS company,” the ShinyHunters group said in a 13 May press statement on its dark web leak site. “If you are an impacted institution, we are not seeking...

for all the wrong reasons over the last seven or so days, following a comprehensive breach of its Canvas platform by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group. Millions of students and educators have had their personal details compromised, and the Canvas...

has responded to claims made by the hackers behind last week’s Instructure education breach. The cyber extortion group ShinyHunters recently published a list of more than 2,700 schools, colleges, and other entities in the education sector allegedly...

have been caught up in a global IT breach, with possibly lifelong impacts for students. Between 3 and 5 May 2026, the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group claimed responsibility for a data breach of cloud education provider Instructure and its Canvas...

today. “School principals are in the process of contacting families and teachers to advise them of the breach.” The ShinyHunters cyber extortion group is behind the incident and is claiming to have compromised millions of students and staff globally,...

were involved. If that changes, we will notify any impacted institutions.” While Instructure confirmed the breach, the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group claimed responsibility, with the hackers saying they had compromised more than 200 million students...

Cyber Daily has reached out to Cushman & Wakefield for more information. The fight for attribution – Qilin or ShinyHunters? The incident was first claimed by the infamous ShinyHunters threat group on 1 May. In the listing, the group said it stole...

information”; Have I Been Pwned adds 13.5 million emails to database. Following being listed as a victim by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group, educational publishing giant McGraw Hill has confirmed the hackers were able to access its Salesforce...

Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption II has confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack after notorious hacking group ShinyHunters posted a ransom demand on its darknet leak site. The hackers listed Rockstar Games as a victim in an 11 April update,...

said it was told that the hack was separate from a recent alleged breach of Telus Digital, which was claimed by ShinyHunters. It is currently not publicly known which threat actor launched the recent Crunchyroll attack.

information, phone numbers, and physical addresses – was posted as punishment for the arrests of hackers with links to ShinyHunters and IntelBroker. 5. Bouygues Telecom France’s third-largest telco disclosed it had fallen victim to a cyber attack in...

Identity protection firm Aura has disclosed details of a phishing attack after the company was listed as a victim of the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group earlier this month. “Aura is aware of an incident where one of our employees was the victim of a...