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

Orange Unified School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 8, 2022

Filed

Jan 31, 2024

To disclose

25 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Orange Unified School District →

Illuminate Education, a technology provider for schools, notified Orange Unified School District of a data security incident. Unauthorized access occurred between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022. The incident involved student data including names, academic records, and special education information. No SSNs or financial data were compromised. Illuminate contained the breach and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 25 months / 753 days

Dec 28, 2021

Begins

Jan 8, 2022

Discovered

Jan 31, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+99 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: Orange Unified School District
norm: orange 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: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: EducationIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Minor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 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
Cut off any further unauthorized access
Offering a complimentary year of credit monitoring through Kroll
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 months(753 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/sb24-580268
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 31, 2024
Raw hash: c92e1878e3b854a8dc8b8dcb2666152bed52938af20d7af736f78390a4fc546c

Reporting entityIlluminate Education, Inc

Victim entityOrange Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 8, 2022

Stated responseTook affected systems offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov