00:01The Queensland Government says that names, school locations and email addresses have
00:08been compromised in this breach.
00:10This breach does not extend though to passwords, financial information and dates of birth.
00:16What this relates to is a company called Instructure, a third party company that provides the Queensland
00:24Government's online learning system QLearn for the state's education departments.
00:29QLearn has been in place since 2020 and the government estimates that essentially every
00:36student who's been enrolled in a Queensland state school since 2020 and every teacher who's
00:42worked in a Queensland state school since 2020 has been caught up in this data breach.
00:48Now we know that this is not just impacting Queensland state schools.
00:52This is part of a broader data breach involving the cloud-based Canvas learning management
00:58system.
00:59We learnt yesterday that a number of universities are looking into whether they've been impacted
01:04by this global data breach and indeed the NSW Education Department has also released a statement
01:11in the last hour or so saying that it's trying to work out if its schools have also been impacted
01:17by this data breach.
01:18Yesterday Tasmania's Technical and Further Education Institute also issued a statement where they
01:25say they've been informed by Instructure that a criminal third party had access to their
01:30data.
01:31Now, as for the data involved in the Queensland Education Department, it's understood although
01:36it's been obtained by someone else, it has not been released publicly, Ros.
01:40And has the federal government responded, Jack?
01:44Yes, the Australian government is aware of this breach.
01:49They're aware of this reported breach.
01:50The Australian Cyber Security Centre and the National Office of Cyber Security, they're coordinating
01:56the federal government's response to this incident.
02:00Students and teachers are being warned to be on the lookout for any potential scams as a result
02:06of the breach.
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