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 has been enrolled in a Queensland state school since 2020 and every teacher who
00:42has worked 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 have been impacted
01:04by this global data breach and indeed the NSW Education Department has also released a statement
01:11saying that it is trying to work out if its schools have also been impacted by this data
01:16breach.
01:17Yesterday, Tasmania's Technical and Further Education Institute also issued a statement
01:23where they say they have been informed by Instructure that a criminal third party had access
01:28their data.
01:29Now, as for the data involved in the Queensland Education Department, it is understood that
01:34although it has been obtained by someone else, it has not been released publicly.
01:38The Australian Government is aware of this breach.
01:42They are aware of this reported breach.
01:44The Australian Cyber Security Centre and the National Office of Cyber Security, they are coordinating
01:50the Federal Government's response to this incident.
01:54Students and teachers are being warned to be on the lookout for any potential scams as a result
02:00of the breach.
02:01And
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