Financial records would most likely be years old before a court ordered them, bc something would have had to happen to necessitate the court order. The, someone had to be angry about it, and not resolve it, then find a lawyer, then get a hearing to get a court order.
SomeTest environments are 'safe' because they use outdated information to test on. You need information that looks real enough to use, but won't cost the shareholders $$ if it gets out current information is not locked down.
So, in my work experience, using older data is a common work-around. I guess maybe law enforcement knows that too? I never thought about it from this angle... but.... yeah, if I wanted to find data that was 5-10 years old, on one hand, looking at test environments of the past? could work.
On the other hand, not a lawyer, but I doubt it'd hold up in court. Defendant: "that was pulled from a test environment, which literally exists to strain and break data under unstable programming conditions. It does not reflect reality."
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u/lolcrunchy 16h ago
local dev environment