Sensitive Information of NSW Flood Victims Mistakenly Entered into ChatGPT

A serious data breach involving the personal details of thousands of flood victims has been confirmed by the New South Wales government in an unsettling development that highlights the fragile boundary between technology and privacy.

There has been an inadvertent upload of sensitive information by a former contractor to ChatGPT of the information belonging to applicants in the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program, which exposed the email addresses, phone numbers, and health information of thousands of applicants.

NSW Reconstruction Authority informed us that the breach took place in March of this year. They said the incident was deeply regrettable and apologized to those affected as a result of this. 

It has been stated that authorities have not yet found any evidence that the data has been published, although they have acknowledged that it cannot be entirely dismissed as a possibility.

The NSW Cyber Security NSW team is conducting an in-depth investigation into this matter to determine how much of the exposed information has been exposed and what precautions must be taken to ensure that the breach does not occur again. 

According to the NSW Reconstruction Authority, the breach was caused by a former contractor who uploaded an Excel spreadsheet containing over 12,000 rows of information without authorization to ChatGPT.

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