HackingEducationTechnologyEducationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)EducationIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MinorMediumContained

Tracy Unified School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Mar 4, 2024

To disclose

26 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Tracy Unified School District →

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, notified Tracy Unified School District that student data was accessed without authorization between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022. The incident involved student names, academic records, and demographic information. Illuminate contained the breach by taking systems offline and is offering credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 26 months / 786 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

Mar 4, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+104 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: Tracy Unified School District
norm: tracy unified school district
Domain: tracy.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: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: EducationIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Minor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Illuminate Education, Inc.

During the incident: Took affected systems offline
Hired expert analysts to investigate
Cut off further unauthorized access
Offering a complimentary year of credit monitoring through Kroll
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 months(786 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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/sb24-581866
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2024
Raw hash: 2bde345f0f8f46733623deaccd39dabec8a4bbe03eb036f9120363589b075c6f

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityTracy Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook affected systems offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov