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The FBI’s New York office was reportedly hacked on the night of the Super Bowl in 2023, leading to the deletion of approximately 100 terabytes of evidence data tied to the Epstein files (www.justice.gov)
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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Convenient.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

don't worry, NSA has copies.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Any entity controlled by Trump should be assumed complicit in the cover-up. I hope there's a copy off U.S. shores.

[–] forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

giving me major deja vu of this incident from a while back. fucking slimy

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That doesn’t really seem…possible? If the only copies of this evidence are on a server somewhere, the evidence documenting process was very destructive.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, afaik that's not how forensic collection works. There are copies and backups and originals.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

As if they don't have backups elsewhere that they're not telling us about.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Videos

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

100 terabytes... wow

[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ask Vlad or Mossad for the backup