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

Waterford Unified School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Jul 1, 2022

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Waterford Unified School District →

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, reported unauthorized access to databases containing student information for Waterford 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 student information, but not SSNs or financial data. Illuminate engaged forensic specialists, rotated credentials, and offered identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 8, 2022 → Notified Jul 1, 2022174d ✗ CA 60-day late25 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 174 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

Jul 1, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 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: Waterford Unified School District
norm: waterford 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: Jul 1, 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: 25 weeks(174 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 174d
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: Jul 1, 2022
174d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 8, 2022 → Notified: Jul 1, 2022	174d	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/sb24-554829
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 1, 2022
Raw hash: 61f51e28e21293e425c0aecfebd7f7ea8fea496565b7c3ebbd15060bbba90388

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityWaterford 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