by Veronika Kyrylenko,The New American:
A sworn declaration included in the Trump administration’s recent release of the Epstein files indicates that a cyber intrusion into FBI systems led to the loss of vast quantities of data connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
In a declaration (pdf) dated September 2024, FBI Special Agent Aaron Spivack described a breach of the Bureau’s New York Field Office network that occurred on Super Bowl Sunday in 2023. According to the statement, the incident caused investigators to lose access to roughly 500 terabytes of stored information. Of that amount, approximately 100 terabytes could not be recovered.
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It provides a rare inside account of how the rather unfortunate breach unfolded, how the FBI’s internal systems were exposed, and how an enormous quantity of investigative data vanished from federal custody.
The details appear in sworn testimony Spivack gave during an internal FBI investigation into the mishandling of digital evidence and a cyber intrusion that compromised the Bureau’s New York Field Office systems. At the time, he was serving as a special agent on a Hybrid Domestic Terrorism and Child Exploitation squad.
According to his declaration, the breach occurred on February 12, 2023, the night of the Super Bowl.
Spivack did not realize anything was wrong until the following morning.
“The intrusion happened on Super Bowl Sunday of 2023 and I discovered it the very next day; on Monday,” he wrote.
Source: SGT Report
