Ex-student caught up in Tasmanian cyber hack questions why seven-year-old data held by government

Andrew Connor is worried that his date of birth is among the information compromised. (Supplied)

When Andrew Connor received an email from the Tasmanian government, highlighting that his personal data may have been included in a cyber attack, it raised a number of questions.

Mr Connor was among the 145,000 recipients of the email, which lists the agencies within the state's Education Department that may have been included in the hack that was carried out by a ransomware group.