Tasmanian data breach: schoolchildren’s information among 16,000 documents leaked on dark web

Minister confirms education department documents breached after third-party file transfer service was hacked

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Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including schoolchildren’s personal information, the state government has confirmed.

The state’s science and technology minister, Madeleine Ogilvie, on Friday said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their parents had been released after the third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere MFT was hacked.

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