In July 2026, someone accessed the system Victorian courts use to link participants to online hearings. Not the case management system - the joining list. Four years of it, across ten regional court locations, for the Magistrates' Court and the Children's Court.

This episode walks through what was confirmed, what was only claimed, and why a scheduling layer turned out to be more sensitive than the case files it pointed at.

What Court Services Victoria confirmed: the incident occurred in July 2026; the data spans 2022 to 2026; ten named regional locations including Bendigo, Castlemaine, Echuca, Kerang, Kyneton, Maryborough, Mildura, Ouyen, Robinvale and Swan Hill. Exposed fields include participant names, case titles and numbers, hearing dates, times and courtrooms, plus two things not on the public record - email addresses and a descr ...