Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including school children’s personal information, the state government has confirmed.
Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their parents had been released after third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere MFT was hacked.
It is understood the information was released on the dark web by a Russian-linked hacker group called Cl0p.
“At this point in time, I’m advised that there are approximately 16,000 documents that have been released,” Ogilvie told reporters in Hobart on April 7.
“This data has been accessed through a third party file transfer service, and as I have said previously there is no evidence that Tasmanian government IT systems have been breached….