The answers to the headline question are surprising and disturbing, assuming this is in fact an iCloud backup file that belonged to the President’s son Hunter Biden. All available materials leaking from the alleged 4Chan hack of the contents so far have yet to be disputed as inauthentic with the White House deferring comment.
Over the weekend, materials began leaking on the internet purported to be from an iCloud backup file, from an iPhone or Macbook, presumably, alleged to belong to Hunter Biden. As of this morning, videos, images, and text messages are flooding the internet and Twitter with a lurid glance inside the life of the President’s drug-ravaged son.
Vice provides some context as to what’s happening but the material, some of which contains nudity, is too over the top to post or even link to:
The leak went viral on 4chan, where a user claimed to have hacked into Hunter’s iCloud backup and then used a tool that allows users to recover files from Apple’s cloud backup site. The files are now being dissected by 4chan in what seems to be another leak of a huge amount of personal data from President Joe Biden’s son. In 2020, Hunter Biden left a laptop at a repair shop in Delaware, the contents of which were taken by the store owner and shared with conservative media outlets.
“Iphone contains voice mails, videos, voice recordings, pictures etc of Joe,” the anonymous user wrote on 4chan. “In this ZIP are two folders, one for an ipad and the other for iphone backup.”
Motherboard has been unable to independently verify the files or where they came from, though a series of photos of Hunter Biden that do not appear elsewhere on the internet have been posted on 4chan.
The hacked material, and original postings in 4Chan, are accompanied by screenshots documenting the hack which Vice also says could wind up being authentic given the supporting evidence:
Given these screenshots, it’s plausible that this 4Chan user or someone else figured out Hunter’s iCloud account and then hacked into it, perhaps by guessing the password.
At that point, they could have used the iPhone Backup Extractor to explore the contents of Hunter’s iPhone and iPad and downloaded the data that they found interesting. In a video that shows how the tool works, the company says that a user can just input the iCloud credentials into the software to then explore and recover files from the cloud backup.
So, what’s in Hunter Biden’s iCloud backup? If you guessed drug use and arguing with a “lady of the night” over how much crack you have left, you’d be correct:
Hunter Biden arguing with a hooker about how much crack he has https://t.co/LFgbYeBw5c
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 10, 2022
There’s also a variety of nude images and videos including Hunter Biden going down a waterslide in the buck making inappropriate gestures and the list goes on and on. Most of the material would be unsuitable to post or share in almost any circumstance.
There is some material that can be shared, such as this text message exchange where Hunter Biden is allegedly negotiating over what kind of, um “female companion” he’d like to order:
https://twitter.com/hzydl198752/status/1546489709093797889
So far, everyone in the White House and Hunter Biden’s sphere has been silent on the materials:
The White House declined to comment, referring Motherboard to Hunter Biden’s representatives.
Motherboard sent a request for comment to the email address allegedly belonging to Hunter that is contained in the 4chan screenshots. The owner of the address did not respond.
Hunter’s legal representative Christopher Clar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
If you’re interested in learning more, Rebel News has a roundup documenting more leaked material from the iCloud backup. Some of the content is vulgar, don’t say you weren’t warned.
