What is cloud forensics?

The forensic preservation and analysis of data held in cloud services — email, messaging, storage, social platforms and SaaS systems. It captures evidence that often does not exist on a physical device.

Do I need passwords or court orders to acquire a cloud account?

We require lawful authority for every acquisition — typically the account holder's consent, a court order, or a lawful workplace policy. We do not access accounts without it.

Can you recover messages that have been deleted from a cloud account?

Frequently, yes. Many providers retain server-side artefacts, audit logs and backups beyond what the account owner sees in their app. Recovery depends on the platform and timeframe.

Can you investigate a hacked email or Microsoft 365 account?

Yes. We preserve sign-in logs, mailbox audit logs, forwarding rules and OAuth grants, then reconstruct the intrusion timeline. This is one of our most common matters.

Will the evidence stand up in an Australian court?

Yes. Every acquisition is hash-verified and documented with chain of custody to Australian court evidentiary standards. Expert witness testimony is available.

How long does cloud acquisition take?

From a few hours for a single mailbox to several days for multi-account, multi-platform matters. We provide an estimated timeframe after intake.

How do I get started?

Send a brief through our contact form. A licensed investigator will reply within one business day with a clear scope, fixed-fee quote and timeframe.

Cloud Forensics · Australia & New Zealand

Evidence that lives
in the cloud,
made tangible.

We preserve, acquire and analyse data held in iCloud, Google, Microsoft 365 and the apps that run modern lives — and present it as evidence that holds up in Australian courts.

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Services: 80+ acquirable platforms
Preservation: Same-day, lawful holds
Reports: Hash-verified, court-ready

What We Acquire

Every account, every log,
on a single timeline.

Cloud platforms record far more than users realise — sign-ins, sharing, deletions, device pairings and configuration changes. We capture them and reconcile them into one chronology.

Layer01

iCloud & Google acquisition

Full account acquisition with valid credentials or tokens — backups, photos, contacts, calendars, location and device pairings.

Layer02

Microsoft 365 & Workspace

Mailbox exports, Teams chats, OneDrive, SharePoint, Drive and shared-folder activity for legal and corporate matters.

Layer03

Cloud-synced messengers

WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Instagram cloud artefacts — messages, call records and media when local devices are gone.

Layer04

Storage & sync services

Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Drive — what was uploaded, downloaded, shared, restored or deleted, and by which account.

Layer05

Authentication & access logs

Sign-in history, IP, device, MFA events and session tokens — vital for hack, fraud and unauthorised-access matters.

Layer06

Cross-cloud timeline

Events across multiple platforms reconciled to a single chronological view a court or board can follow.

Service Coverage

Whatever the platform,
we have a method.

From a single Gmail mailbox to multi-tenant Microsoft 365 estates, we work to the highest forensic standard the platform and lawful authority allow.

Apple01

iCloud

Backups, photo stream, Find My, contacts, calendars, Notes and Keychain — acquired with lawful authority and credentials.

Backups
Photos
Find My

Google02

Workspace & consumer

Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Photos, Location History, Pay and full Google Takeout exports preserved forensically.

Gmail
Drive
Location

Microsoft03

Microsoft 365

Exchange Online mailboxes, Teams chats, OneDrive, SharePoint, audit logs and unified eDiscovery exports.

Exchange
Teams
OneDrive

Messengers04

WhatsApp · Telegram · Signal

Cloud-side artefacts, multi-device sessions and end-to-end backup analysis where keys are lawfully available.

Multi-device
Backups
Media

The Toolkit

Lawful preservation,
forensic acquisition.

Cloud evidence has a short half-life. Audit logs roll off, sessions expire, accounts can be wiped or reconfigured at any time. Same-day legal holds and forensic preservation are often the difference between a winning case and a hollow one.

We use validated acquisition tooling and provider-native exports, hash-verify every output, and keep a documented chain of custody from the first preservation request through to the courtroom.

Platforms

80+

Preservation

Same-day

Audit logs

Sign-in · Mailbox

Reports

Hash-verified

The Process

Calm, methodical,
court-grade from intake.

Step01

Intake & lawful authority

We confirm consent, court order or other lawful basis before any cloud account is acquired.

Step02

Forensic acquisition

Account preservation, OAuth or token-based acquisition, and credential-based capture where required.

Step03

Decode & correlation

Activity normalised across platforms — sign-ins, sharing, deletion and message flows correlated by time.

Step04

Court-ready report

Plain-English findings with annotated exhibits and full chain of custody. Expert testimony available.

Frequently Asked

Cloud forensics, plainly explained.

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Send A Brief.
We'll Take It From There.

Every enquiry is read by a licensed investigator and treated in strict confidence.