HackingEducationTechnologyEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EducationMediumContained

Illuminate Education, Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Apr 12, 2022

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

1,743state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Illuminate Education, Inc →

Illuminate Education experienced unauthorized access to student data between Dec 28, 2021, and Jan 8, 2022. 1,743 Washington residents were notified. Data included names, DOBs, and education records. No SSNs or financial data were at risk. Illuminate engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, and provided 1 year of identity monitoring.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d13 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 94 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

Apr 12, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_3230a3dddcd2670d2023-12-21 · +618dVerified

Name: Impact Public Schools
norm: impact public schools

Name: Illuminate Education, Inc
norm: illuminate education
Industry: EducationllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jan 8, 2022
Breach occurred: Dec 28, 2021 – Jan 8, 2022
Undetected for: 11 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 22, 2022
Affected individuals: 1,743state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Education
Data elements: NameDate of birthStudent ID number
WA-stated cause: Unauthorized Access
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcement regarding the event
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Moved quickly to investigate and respond to the incident
Assessed the security of Illuminate systems
Identified potentially affected individuals
Notified federal law enforcement regarding the event
Provided notice to Impact Public Schools
Provided written notice of this incident to 1,743 Washington residents
Provided access to identity monitoring services for one (1) year through IDX, at no cost to these individuals
Changes made: Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(94 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Washington State AGApr 12 · first · this page

Montana State AG+618d

Pattern: first filing Apr 12 (WA), last Dec 21 (MT) — a 618-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA8160.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 12, 2022
Raw hash: d9a9173205d286c65306d3303d88bf3a5e36b3572c6a69c886300a79918a6bff

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityImpact Public Schools

Victim entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseMoved quickly to investigate and respond to the incident

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com