🇨🇦 Ontario courts left sealed records sitting in a vendor cloud for months

The breach was detected June 30, but the unauthorized access started in March. That means Ontario’s court system had names, personal data, and even confidential, redacted or sealed information parked in a third-party platform while nobody noticed for months, as reported. The magical reassurance is that the courts’ own networks were not at fault. Great, so the province outsourced core judicial records to Thomson Reuters Canada and now wants applause because the leak happened in somebody else’s cloud.

This is late-stage managerial Canada in one story: endless digital modernization slogans, zero real accountability, and citizens told to accept credit monitoring after their court files may have been harvested. Chief Justice Michael H. Tulloch and the rest are warning that anyone involved in proceedings may be affected, but nobody can say how many records, what years, or what exactly was taken. Sovereignty is not just borders. It is control over your own institutions, your own data, and your own justice system. Ontario handed that control away, then acted surprised when the bill arrived.

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