06/03/2026
Earlier this May, a meteorology student at Mississippi State finished a 2,900-word exam essay. Then a ransom note popped up on her screen.
She hadn't been hacked. Her school hadn't been hacked. The platform her school used, Canvas, had been hit by a group called ShinyHunters. Around 9,000 institutions across three countries were caught in the same breach.
Your CRM is somebody's vendor. So is your payroll provider. So is your accounting platform. Cyber attackers don’t need to know that your business exists.
Vendor risk reviews aren't glamorous, but they're how small businesses stop being collateral damage in someone else's breach.