HackingEducationTechnologyEducationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EducationMinorMediumContained

Riverside County Office of Education

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

May 27, 2022

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Riverside County Office of Education →3 incidents on file

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, disclosed unauthorized access to databases containing student information for Riverside County Office of Education and other clients. The breach occurred between Dec 28, 2021, and Jan 8, 2022, and was discovered on Jan 8, 2022. Affected data includes names and potentially other student records, but not SSNs or financial info. Illuminate engaged forensics, rotated credentials, and offered identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 8, 2022 → Notified May 27, 2022139d ✗ CA 60-day late20 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 139 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

May 27, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+11 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: Riverside County Office of Education
norm: riverside county office of education
Domain: rcoe.us
Industry: EducationllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jan 8, 2022
Breach occurred: Dec 28, 2021 – Jan 8, 2022
Undetected for: 11 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 27, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)EducationMinor
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 credit and identity monitoring services through IDX
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures to protect the security of information in our possession
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(139 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 139d
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: May 27, 2022
139d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 8, 2022 → Notified: May 27, 2022	139d	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/sb24-553833
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 27, 2022
Raw hash: 80bf2f782e5555c61634478b852b2d4c4cb10dd3b03a59f565bec6aee3420053

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityRiverside County Office of Education

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook steps to secure the affected applications

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov