Data breach access names and email addresses of Victorian students
January 15, 2026
There has been a major data breach of the Victorian Department of Education which resulted in hackers accessing names, email addresses and encrypted passwords of current and formal students of Victorian Government schools. It is reported widely with coverage in the Age, cyber daily, AFR and the Saturday Paper.
While the names and email addresses were stolen the students’ data of birth and other forms of personal information were not. That makes it likely that the data was siloed. Notwithstanding the problems with the data breach itself at least there was some sophistication in the storage of the data. The Victorian Department of Education Read the rest of this entry »