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

Santa Monica-Malibu 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 Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District →

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, notified the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District that unauthorized access occurred to its databases between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022. The incident involved student data including names, academic records, behavior information, and demographic data. No SSNs or financial data were involved. Illuminate contained the breach on January 8, 2022, and is offering credit monitoring services.

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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

+105 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: Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
norm: santa monica malibu unified school district
Domain: smmusd.org
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)BehaviorMinor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Illuminate Education, Inc.

During the incident: Took the affected systems offline
Hired expert analysts to investigate what happened
Provided the required notices to the applicable schools and districts
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/sb24-581864
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: 98ae730fe967805d29d9e554fb76b27d4c660827df18ce19c7769043374b27f1

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entitySanta Monica-Malibu Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook the affected systems offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov