FTC and States Settle with Illuminate Education Over Student Data Breach

Illuminate Education, an Edtech provider, faced enforcement actions from the FTC and a $5.1 million settlement with the Attorneys General of California, Connecticut, and New York due to a data breach that exposed personal information of over 10 million students in the U.S. The breach, linked to a 2021 cyber incident, highlighted the company's failure to implement adequate security measures to protect student data.