Management of the Port Arthur historic site says the personal data of some staff caught up in an 'inadvertent publication' on a website did not contain information about the 1996 massacre and the incident was human error, not a data breach.
Authorities say hundreds of records from the Port Arthur site which "went live" on the Libraries Tasmania website for six weeks did not contain information relating to the 1996 massacreThe site's management says it was not a cyber attack but human error, and steps are being taken to ensure it doesn't happen again
The Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority chief executive Will Flamsteed said there had been a "careful review" and that "to the best of our knowledge" the records did not relate to the massacre or general visitors to the site. "While some employee information was unfortunately temporarily made live, this did not contain tax or banking information."The incident involved "only a few of the files" containing personal data with most related to conservation work at the site.
"A record titled 'Ghost Tour Guides 1991-1994 contains the personal information of 19 people and it was viewed on 36 occasions and downloaded six times.
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