Canvas, a popular education platform used for course materials and communications, was down for several hours Thursday after ...

A US-based education tech provider announced a cybersecurity incident affecting its Canvas platform – used by institutions ...

Many European universities still expose student data because they rely on outdated administrative methods, leading to ...

The deadline arrived on May 8, 2026, and thousands of college students had no idea whether their personal information was ...

The ed-tech software company Illuminate Education will pay the states of New York, California and Connecticut a $5.1 million collective settlement after it failed to safeguard a large swath of student ...

A new report from CoSN examines gaps and opportunities in student data privacy at schools and districts across the country. The 2025 National Student Data Privacy ...

The city Department of Education has significant gaps in data privacy practices and fell short of requirements for reporting breaches, according to a state audit released in April.The report, released ...

In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, it’s really that simple of a priority–and that complicated. Despite the passage ...

The state comptroller's audit comes as NYC expands AI use in classrooms and relies more on third-party tech vendors.

A recent audit found New York City Public Schools don't have written policies on risk assessment and data backups, don't keep ...

Students at George Mason University woke up to an unsettling message from their IT department this spring: a breach at ...