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Once again, search and social media platforms are facing moderation challenges tied to data allegedly leaked from the president’s son’s devices.
Over the weekend, users of 4Chan’s /pol/ messageboard were whipped into a frenzy of excitement by one poster claiming to have hacked into Hunter Biden’s phone. Exact details are hard to confirm, but the original poster suggests they have used a tool called iPhone Backup Extractor to recover backup copies of the contents of an iPhone and iPad belonging to Hunter Biden — possibly by compromising his iCloud account and downloading the data from the cloud.
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at least some of the images shared on 4Chan haven’t previously appeared anywhere else online
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