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Hunter Biden is suing Rudy Giuliani and an associate for the “total annihilation” of the president’s son’s digital privacy and data, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleges that Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who served as then President Trump’s attorney, and Robert J. Costello “dedicated an extraordinary amount of time and energy” to hack, tamper with and disseminate over data “that they were given that was taken or stolen from [Biden’s] devices or storage platforms.”
At the heart of this issue is information obtained from what news reports have said is Hunter Biden’s laptop. The lawsuit alleges that, in fact, Giuliani never had possession of Biden’s laptop. What he and Costello had, the lawsuit says, was Biden’s “external drive” that they called a “laptop.” The lawsuit notes that the complaint is not an admission by Biden that his laptop was obtained by a Delaware computer repair shop owner; simply that the owner of the store obtained data, some of which belonged to the president’s son.
At least some of the data that [Giuliani and Costello] obtained, copied, and proceeded to hack into and tamper with belongs to” Biden, the complaint alleges. The “Plaintiff’s data was manipulated, altered and damaged before it was copied and sent to” Giuliani and Costello, but their “illegal hacking and tampering has involved further alterations and damage to the data to a degree that is presently unknown to” Biden.
The lawsuit alleges that the pair’s actions are unlawful under California law, and it says Giuliani and Costello have refused to return Biden’s data.
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