A Digital Education Platform Used by 5,200 Schools Suffers 10 Day Outage Following a Cyber Incident

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Exploit: Unspecified
Company: Illuminate Education
Industry: Education Platform
Sources: https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/nyc-schools-crippled-by-illuminate-educations-data-outage/

Illuminate Education, a digital education platform used by 5,200 schools and districts in the US, is still struggling to resume services after a cyberattack. The company owns popular school management platforms Skedula and PupilPath. Illuminate Education says it has continued experiencing a service interruption affecting all IO Classroom applications for nearly 10 days following an unspecified security incident. Investigation and recovery are underway, but the platform has not provided a recent update on the expected timeline.  

No specifics about any consumer/employee PII or financial data loss were available at press time.

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