Territory Families, Housing and Communities (TFHC) has launched an investigation into how sensitive information was disposed of in old office cabinets at Darwin’s Shoal Bay Recycle Shop.
The incident occurred as a result of an office refurbishment where excess or broken office cabinets were disposed of at the Shoal Bay facility. Office cabinets were disposed of on 7 October. The agency became aware of the information loss on 11 October and the office cabinets were immediately secured and then searched to retrieve any documents.
TFHC is assessing the number of people, if any, who may be affected and any impacted people will be contacted by the agency.
Members of the public are reminded of obligations under the Information Act that confidential information cannot be used in any other way other than in which it was intended.
TFHC offers its sincere apologies to anyone that is potentially affected.
