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

Tehachapi Unified School District

bd_97819998e5c0c67e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Mar 4, 2024

To disclose

26 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Tehachapi Unified School District →

Illuminate Education, Inc. notified Tehachapi Unified School District of a data security incident where unauthorized access occurred between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022. The breach involved student data including names, academic records, behavior information, and special education details. No SSNs or financial data were compromised. Illuminate took systems offline and engaged Kroll for 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: Tehachapi Unified School District
norm: tehachapi unified school district
Domain: tehachapiusd.com
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: PIIIdentity (basic)EducationHealth (basic)BehaviorMinor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed notification with California Attorney General
Third party: via Illuminate Education, Inc.

During the incident: Took affected systems offline
Hired expert analysts to investigate
Cut off further unauthorized access
Offering a complimentary year of credit monitoring through Kroll
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/sb24-581865
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: 498aa96ed993bfd7388fa3fc1e8c3a0376122138b378ffe227f8f7284536a4d8

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityTehachapi Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook affected systems offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov