Thousands of flood victims involved in a buyback scheme have had personal information breached. Photo: Jason O'BRIEN/AAP PHOTOS

Thousands of flood victims who applied for a government buyback scheme have had their personal information put into AI program ChatGPT in a major data breach.

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Home owners in the Lismore and Northern Rivers areas of NSW had names, email addresses, phone numbers and personal health information put into the website by a contractor tasked with assessing buyback applications.

The data shared was a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with 10 columns and more than 12,000

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