HackingEducationEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EducationMinorMediumContained

Ceres Unified School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Ceres Unified School District →

Ceres Unified School District notified the California Attorney General of unauthorized access to student information by third-party vendor Illuminate, Inc. between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022. Affected data included student names, enrollment, and demographic information. Social security numbers and financial information were not accessed. Illuminate engaged forensic specialists, secured applications, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring to affected families.

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Incident timeline

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

May 26, 2022

Filed

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

Name: Ceres Unified School District
norm: ceres unified school district
Domain: ceres.k12.ca.us

Name: Ceres Unified School District
norm: ceres unified school district
Domain: ceres.k12.ca.us
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Dec 28, 2021 – Jan 8, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)EducationMinor
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Illuminate, Inc.
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Engaged external forensic specialists to determine the nature and scope of the activity
Requested periodic updates from Illuminate in the event of any attempted use
Provided complimentary 12-month membership to a credit monitoring service
Changes made: Illuminate changed the passwords of the impacted applications
Illuminate reviewed its policies and procedures
Illuminate implemented additional data security measures to protect student data
Ceres Unified will regularly seek updates on these efforts
Ceres Unified will request a third-party audit of the vendor’s security practices if necessary
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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/sb24-553814
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 26, 2022
Raw hash: e70a4061ddef3604fb4ea63b902ffbc75a37110be0abf874094667b3092cbfbc

Reporting entityCeres Unified School District

Victim entityCeres Unified School District

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseEngaged external forensic specialists to determine the nature and scope of the activity

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov