Emails reveal courts knew of Auscript data offshoring in 2014
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Emails show Australian federal courts were told in 2014 that Auscript had sent sensitive court data to India. The courts later said the breach was minor, while a successor company, VIQ Solutions, was involved in a separate offshore-access breach.
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Paul Cutbush raised concerns about Auscript's offshore processing of court data with the federal courts and the Australian Federal Police in December 2014.
“Concerns were raised with both federal courts and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) by former Auscript national manager, Paul Cutbush, in December 2014”
The family court described Auscript's failure to notify it about offshore data processing as a technical, minor and inconsequential breach.
“a "technical, minor and inconsequential breach and not one which, when disclosed, would warrant any significant action by the court"”
Auscript's contract prohibited transferring the information outside Australia or allowing overseas access without the court's prior approval.
“not to transfer such information outside Australia, or allow parties outside Australia to have access to it, without the prior approval of the court”