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Allanah Sciberras and Robyn Wuth

SHOCKING: Cyber attack exposes student and staff private details | Mind Blowing Facts

Cyber attackers have targeted Australian schools and universities, their staff and students. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Personal information of state school students and teachers has been compromised in a massive global data breach affecting millions. 

Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek on Thursday confirmed there had been a "cybersecurity incident"  involving Instructure, the third-party provider that delivers the Department of Education's QLearn platform.

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