A cybersecurity breach affecting 200 million people and more than 9000 institutions worldwide has hit students and teachers across Queensland's education sector.
Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek announced the cyber breach involved Instructure, a third-party provider that has delivered the state's Department of Education's online learning platform Qlearn since 2020.
"This incident has impacted thousands of educational institutions, including state schools and universities within Queensland, across Australia and overseas, and early advice is this will impact more than 200 million people and more than 9000 institutions worldwide," he said.
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Early indications suggest that students and staff working or studying at Queensland schools since 2020 have been affected by the breach.
"Advice at this stage is names, email addresses and school locations have been compromised in the international data breach," Langbroek said.
"No evidence of passwords, dates of birth or financial information being accessed in the data breach.
"School principals are in the process of contacting families and teachers to advise them of the breach."
More to come.
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