00:02A cyber attack targeting some of our most vulnerable.
00:06The full names, email addresses and locations of every state school student and staff member in Queensland
00:13are now in the hands of hackers.
00:15It's concerning about all the data that's available to breach these days.
00:21Well I'm not obviously happy about that. I don't want other people to know details of my son.
00:26It's part of a security breach of teaching software Canvas affecting 200 million people and 9,000 institutions worldwide.
00:34It will leave every Queensland parent who's caught up in this and their kids feeling crook in the guts.
00:41School principals delivered the grim news via email.
00:44Teachers are just very concerned. There's a lot of questions, not a whole lot of answers at the moment.
00:49QUT uses the software but says it hasn't been impacted at this stage.
00:54That data set for kids data has risks in terms of resale value to child sexual abuse material.
01:03Fears information could be passed on to pedophiles as well as create opportunities for children's identities to be stolen.
01:10It's also created an incredibly rich data set for them to go and impersonate you to a loan officer at
01:17a bank.
01:17The TPAA says it voiced privacy concerns multiple times to the education department.
01:23I think it's just a matter of violation because we know that there's so much data kept by the state
01:28government.
01:29The big problem is where that data goes, how it's stored.
01:32Queensland Education says it's providing priority support to families and teachers with known family and domestic violence situations,
01:39as well as those known to the Department of Child Safety.
01:43Canvas parent company Instructure has been contacted for comment.
01:47And also, how are you going to check your book, indigenous people, and friends,
01:47Stay tuned for questions.
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01:49You will find that the latest information will be changed.
01:49Most of the latest information is just a daily basis of what you want to see in the study
01:49the main information.
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