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

Riverside Unified School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Dec 21, 2023

To disclose

24 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Riverside Unified School District →

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, notified Riverside Unified School District of a data breach. Unauthorized access occurred between Dec 28, 2021, and Jan 8, 2022. Student data including names, academic records, and special education info was exfiltrated. SSNs and financial data were not involved. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 24 months / 712 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

Dec 21, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+93 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: Riverside Unified School District
norm: riverside unified school district
Domain: riversideunified.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)Health (basic)Minor
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 affected systems offline
Hired expert analysts to investigate
Provided required notices to applicable schools and districts
Offering a complimentary year of credit monitoring through Kroll
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 months(712 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/sb24-578318
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 21, 2023
Raw hash: 75ba2938d96146f3027ee803a9cd6ea4b42b9cff16dd3690523844ba8bbed6f9

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityRiverside Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook affected systems offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov