Hunter Biden Sues Giuliani For Allegedly Tampering With His Laptop

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden sued attorney Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer in federal court Tuesday, accusing them of “annihilat[ing]” his data and digital privacy by tampering with his laptop and data—the latest twist in an ongoing saga over Biden’s laptop, three years after it became a source of election year controversy pushed by Giuliani and others on the right.

Biden sued Giuliani and several limited liability companies he owns, along with Giuliani’s attorney Robert Costello and 10 unnamed individuals, accusing them of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act and rules against unfair business practices.

The lawsuit takes issue with Giuliani and Costello’s possession of Biden’s “laptop”—which the lawsuit notes is not an actual laptop, but rather “an ‘external drive’ that Defendants were told contained hundreds of gigabytes of Plaintiff’s personal data”—which the defendants have allegedly illegally hacked and tampered with, making “further alterations and damage to the data.”