Follow up from letter families received from Illuminate Education

Dear Parents and Guardians,

On June 24th, students of Lake County School District were provided a letter from Illuminate Education to notify families that our district utilizes Educlimber, a software of the Illuminate Education company. This company experienced a data breach that may have included your child’s information. The company experienced a data breach between December and January of this past year. The company sent these letters on behalf of any of their customer Districts that requested Illuminate to send the notifications. More than 136,000 students in Colorado were impacted by this breach as this company is an Educational platform used by many Colorado school districts to house student assessment and educational data.

Our data had only recently been imported into Illuminate’s Educlimber system as we had been using a long-time product, Alpine Achievement, until the Alpine company was bought out by Illuminate and the Alpine system was discontinued. Therefore, not all of our students had information that was included in the data breach, yet all of our families received the letter. Of the data that was included in the breach, the following information may have been included:

• First Name (681 current students)
• Last Name (681 current students)
• Date of Birth (5 current students)
• Academic Information (681 current students) 

Examples of Academic Information that could be stored in Illuminate

• CMAS Scores
• WIDA Access Scores
• DIBELS Scores
• Star Assessment Scores
• NWEA Maps Scores

Examples of Behavior Information that could be stored in Illuminate

• We did not store behavior information in Illuminate
• Student Demographic Information (681 current students)
  Examples of Demographic Information stored in Illuminate
  • Gender
    • Male
    • Female
  • Ethnicity
    • American Indian/Alaskan Native
    • Asian
    • Black or Native American
    • Hispanic
    • Two or More Races
    • White
  • English Language Learner Status
    • Yes
    • No

If you would like to know if your child’s information was included, please email Bunny Taylor at: btaylor@lakecountyschools.net and she will be able to share more information. 

Sincerely, 

Lake County School District