TasTafe, Childrens' Commissioner and the state's Teacher Registration Board are revealed among the institutions caught up in a recent Tasmanian data breach.
Tasmania's Tafe system, the state's Teachers Registration Board and the office of the Commissioner for Children and Young People have been caught up in a recent Tasmanian government data breach — but a security expert says reporting about hack needs to be measured.In March, a hacker group gained access to up to 16,000 documents containing data related to Tasmanians
On Good Friday, the Tasmanian government said 16,000 documents had been released online after hackers accessed data from the Department of Education, Children and Young People through the third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere MFT.said the data included the names of children and the school they attended, their home room and year group. It also potentially included the bank account details and birth dates of TasTafe students.
Donna Adams has written to media outlets and the state opposition, urging them not give the breach further publicity. "Advice to government being extended to try and silence the opposition from asking critical questions?" Labor's Josh Willie wrote on Twitter."In a democracy we rely on opposition parties, and we rely on the media, to keep government accountable," he said.
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