HackingEducationTechnologyEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EducationLowContained

Greenfield Union School District

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Jul 29, 2022

To disclose

29 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Greenfield Union School District →

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, notified Greenfield Union School District that unauthorized access occurred to databases containing student information between Dec 28, 2021, and Jan 8, 2022. Illuminate became aware of suspicious activity on Jan 8, 2022. Affected data included names and potentially other student information; SSNs and financial data were not at risk. Illuminate rotated credentials, engaged forensic specialists, and offered credit monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 8, 2022 → Notified Jul 29, 2022202d ✗ CA 60-day late29 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 29 weeks / 202 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

Jul 29, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+20 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Illuminate Education, Inc
norm: illuminate education

Name: Greenfield Union School District
norm: greenfield union school district
Domain: greenfield.k12.ca.us
Industry: EducationllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jan 8, 2022
Breach occurred: Dec 28, 2021 – Jan 8, 2022
Undetected for: 11 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 29, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Education
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Illuminate Education, Inc.

During the incident: Took steps to secure the affected applications
Launched an investigation with external forensic specialists
Rotated credentials for the impacted applications
Conducted a review of policies and procedures
Implemented additional security measures
Offering 12 months of complimentary credit and identity monitoring services through IDX
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures to protect the security of information in its possession
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 weeks(202 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 202d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jan 8, 2022
→ Notified: Jul 29, 2022
202d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 8, 2022 → Notified: Jul 29, 2022	202d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-555763
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 29, 2022
Raw hash: 1384cc4f5c50103b9d81cb72bde751f9660d4215665084e7a85f84e83c31d3c2

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityGreenfield Union School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook steps to secure the affected applications

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov