Personal details of 80,000 South Australian public servants stolen in cyber-attack

State government employees advised to change passwords and monitor bank accounts after massive payroll data breach

Records including the name, tax file number and banking details of almost 80,000 South Australian government employees may have been stolen in a cyber-attack, with workers advised to assume their personal information has been stolen.

The South Australian treasurer, Rob Lucas, first disclosed on Friday that records of 38,000 government employees had been stolen in a cyber-attack, but confirmed the extent of the data breach on Tuesday.