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

Victor Valley Union High School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Mar 4, 2024

To disclose

26 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Victor Valley Union High School District →2 incidents on file

Illuminate Education, Inc. notified Victor Valley Union High School District of a data security incident where unauthorized access occurred between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022. The attacker obtained student data including names, academic records, behavior information, enrollment details, and special education/disability codes. No SSNs or financial data were involved. Illuminate took systems offline and engaged Kroll for credit monitoring services for affected individuals over 18.

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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: Victor Valley Union High School District
norm: victor valley union high 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: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: EducationIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Minor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed notification with California Attorney General
Third party: via Illuminate Education, Inc.

During the incident: Took affected systems offline
Hired expert analysts to investigate
Cut off any further unauthorized access
Offering a complimentary year of credit monitoring (for those 18 or over)
Secured the services of Kroll to provide credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration
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/sb24-581867
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: 3564ccb332462a37321deb31c8eac78e4ca8d73166a601c1aa66d8be906b3abd

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityVictor Valley Union High School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook affected systems offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov