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Illuminate Education settles with US FTC over data breach

( December 1, 2025, 18:26 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Illuminate Education reached a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission requiring it to implement a data security program and delete unnecessary data, resolving allegations that the company’s data security failures led to a major data breach. According to the FTC’s complaint, Illuminate failed to deploy reasonable security measures to protect student data stored in cloud-based databases, which allowed hackers to access the personal data of more than 10 million students.Statement follows in full. Also see attached files. ...

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