Hackers accessed nearly 4,000 tax file numbers as well as bank accounts, super details and home addresses in the December cyber attack.
abc.net.au/news/qld-qut-hack-victims-ransom-cyber-attack/102180420The Queensland University of Technology has admitted it has no way of knowing if some of the highly sensitive data of more than 11,000 current and former staff and students has been sold after its shared drive was hacked.
"They were blocked out immediately and we shut off that particular means by which they were able to access the system," she said. "If the data has been extracted from the organisation, you've effectively lost control of it," he said.
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