HackingEducationTechnologyEducationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EducationMediumContained

Federal Way School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Aug 2, 2022

To disclose

29 weeks

Affected

36,773state residents only

Confidence

70%

Illuminate Education, on behalf of Federal Way School District, disclosed a breach affecting 36,773 Washington residents. Unauthorized access occurred between Dec 28, 2021, and Jan 8, 2022. Data exposed included names, student IDs, DOB, and academic/behavior records. No SSNs or financial data were at risk. Illuminate notified law enforcement, engaged forensic specialists, rotated credentials, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d29 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 29 weeks / 206 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

Aug 2, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+21 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed36,773 affectedView incident

Name: Illuminate Education on behalf of Federal Way School Distric
norm: illuminate education on behalf of federal way school distric

Name: Federal Way School District
norm: federal way school district
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: 36,773state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Education
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Provided written notice of this incident to relevant state regulators
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Moved quickly to investigate and respond to the incident
Assessed the security of Illuminate systems
Identified potentially affected individuals
Notified federal law enforcement regarding the event
Rotated credentials for the impacted applications
Launched an investigation with external forensic specialists
Conducted a review of policies and procedures
Implemented additional security measures
Provided notice to Federal Way School District
Provided notice to affected individuals
Provided access to identity monitoring services for one (1) year through IDX
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and training to its employees
Provided guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Advised individuals to report any suspected incidents of identity theft or fraud to their credit card company and/or bank
Provided information on how to place a fraud alert and security freeze on one’s credit file
Provided contact details for the national consumer reporting agencies
Provided information on how to obtain a free credit report
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 weeks(206 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA13162.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 2, 2022
Raw hash: 6a6a726adacb9b62ff4a7c116990ed66fe5bdbc7041ccdfb9c7093eae1496d14

Reporting entityIlluminate Education on behalf of Federal Way School Distric

Victim entityFederal Way School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseMoved quickly to investigate and respond to the incident

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com