What happened
In March 2023 the Tasmanian Government was caught in the global GoAnywhere file-transfer breach exploited by the Cl0p group, exposing data held by its education department [tas-itnews], [tas-record]. The Tasmanian Government said about 150,000 individuals and businesses were affected, while roughly 16,000 documents were actually leaked to the attacker’s site [tas-record], [tas-itnews]. Exposed material included financial records and children’s school details.
Current status
Disclosed. The 150,000 figure counts individuals and businesses (not solely people), and the 16,000 is a document count — so no clean count of affected people is asserted here.
Why it matters
Children’s data is among the most sensitive a government holds, and this incident shows how a single file-transfer vulnerability cascaded into a whole education system.