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

Los Angeles Unified School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

May 20, 2022

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, reported unauthorized access to databases containing student information for Los Angeles Unified School District. The breach occurred between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022, and was discovered on January 8, 2022. Affected data includes names and other educational records of minors. No SSNs or financial data were compromised. Illuminate engaged forensic specialists, rotated credentials, and offered identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 8, 2022 → Notified May 20, 2022132d ✗ CA 60-day late19 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 132 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

May 20, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 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: Los Angeles Unified School District
norm: los angeles unified 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: May 20, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)EducationMinor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
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: 19 weeks(132 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 132d
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 20, 2022
132d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 8, 2022 → Notified: May 20, 2022	132d	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/sb24-553589
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 20, 2022
Raw hash: dfab178a8fc83eecc6c024f627db6f6d30dbe239f79cacd7066aba2d971062b9

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityLos Angeles Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook steps to secure the affected applications

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov