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Illuminate Education Data Breach Information
Illuminate Education Data Breach Information
Illuminate Education Data Breach Information
What Happened?
On January 8, 2022, Illuminate Education became aware of suspicious activity in a set of isolated applications within our environment. We immediately took steps to secure the affected applications and launched an investigation with external forensic specialists to determine the nature and scope of the activity.
On March 24, 2022, Illuminate Educations investigation confirmed that certain databases containing potentially protected student information were subject to unauthorized access between December 28, 2021, and January 8, 2022. On or around April 18, 2022, Illuminate Education will begin the process of notifying Rocklin Unified School District students who may have been affected by this incident.
Illuminate Education will be notifying you of this incident if their investigation has determined that your minor's information was contained in the affected databases.
What Information Was Involved
The affected databases contained the following:
- your minor's name and academic and behavior information
- enrollment information
- accommodation information
- special education information
- student demographic information.
Illuminate Education wants to assure you that Social Security numbers and financial information were not at risk as a result of this event. Although Illuminate Education has no evidence that any information was subject to actual or attempted misuse, we are providing you with this notice out of an abundance of caution.
What We Are Doing
Rocklin Unified School District was notified by Illuminate Education of this incident on April 7, 2022. Since that time we have been engaging with them to identify students who may have had their information compromised. We coninue to work with Illuminate Education and will make sure the information needed is provided so they can reach out to those families who had student data potentially accessed. We have provided information to Illuminate so they will be able to notify affected families.
The confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in our care is among our highest priorities. When Illuminate Education discovered this incident, they immediately rotated credentials for the impacted applications and began an investigation with the support of third-party forensic specialists to ensure the security of their systems and determine what data might have been affected. Illuminate Education also conducted a review of our policies and procedures and implemented additional security measures to protect the security of information in our possession.
As an added precaution, Illuminate Education is offering your minor complementary access to 12 months of identity monitoring services through IDX. We encourage you to enroll your minor in these services, as we are not able to act on your behalf to enroll you. Please review the instructions contained in the attached Steps You Can Take to Help Protect Your Minor's Information for additional information on these services.
What You Can Do
As standard best practice, we encourage you to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft and fraud by reviewing your minor's account statements and monitoring your free credit reports for suspicious activity and to detect errors. Please also review the information contained in the "Steps You Can Take to Help Protect Your Minor's Personal Information" at the bottom of this notification.
For help with this process, please call our Help Desk between the hours of 9 am and 11:30 am Monday through Thursday 916-672-3600
For More Information
For more information please email safedata@rocklinusd.org
Illuminate Education Data Breach Parent Notification Information
Illuminate Education Data Breach Parent Notification Information
The information below was received by Rocklin Unified on April 7, 2022 notifying us of the incident
The following letter will be sent to any affected families regarding the Illuminate Education Data Breach