Exploit: Hacking
Illuminate Education: Education Platform
Risk to Business: 1.717= Severe
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.
Individual Impact: No specifics about any consumer/employee PII or financial data loss were available at press time.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How It Could Affect Your Customers’ Business Cybercriminals have been all over targets in the education sector including companies that serve it. Companies should use caution.
Source: nypost