Is son Hunter laptop worry for Joe Biden rally? Sex pics to Secret Service names, here are what were found in it
Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, abandoned his laptop containing a number of controversial emails, pictures, videos and many other such documents in a Delaware store in 2019, and when the laptop's material came to light last month, a series of controversies erupted.
Remarkably, the 50-year-old businessman and self-confessed drug addict took the machine to a back-street IT store in Delaware in April 2019 to get it fixed – yet never turned to collect it from the store. Hunter's MacBook Pro computer – filled with what an IT expert described to Daily Mail, as a "national security nightmare" and "classic blackmail material" – with a single, simple password: Hunter02. Its existence was reported by the New York Post last month, but the unbelievable scale and sensitivity of its contents, easily accessible to a hacker with a modicum of skill – is only revealed for the first time today. The material inside the laptop, none of which was encrypted or protected by anything as basic as two-factor authentication, includes:
- Joe Biden's personal mobile number and three private email addresses, along with names of his Secret Service agents.
- Phone and mobile numbers for former President Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary and almost every member of former president Barack Obama's cabinet.
- A contact database of 1,500 people, including actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, former presidential candidate John Kerry and ex-FBI boss Louis Freeh.
- Personal documents, including Hunter's passport, driver's licence, social security card, credit cards and bank statements.
- Details of Hunter's drug and sex problems, including $21,000 spent on one "live cam" porn website and "selfies" of him engaging in sex acts and smoking crack cocaine and he spent $11,400 in a strip club in a single night.
''It's a data breach and dangerous to have this type of material floating around," said the former police commander, who advised successive British Foreign Secretaries on laptop security. ''For someone prominent, there is not only a risk of great reputational damage but also a risk of blackmail should the material fall into the wrong hands," he added. Hunter's laptop holds 11 gigabytes of material and covers the period from when Joe Biden worked as the vice-president under Obama to when Hunter dropped it at the Mac Store in Wilmington.
A small part of the laptop's contents was leaked to the press by Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, sparking unattested claims that the materials may have been fabricated by Russia to derail Biden's White House bid. While some suggested the laptop and its contents are a hoax perpetrated by China to weaken Biden. According to a Daily Mail report, a forensic cyber expert, hired to analyze materials downloaded from the laptop, said they are authentic. ''I have been doing this for 20 years and there is nothing to suggest the laptop or its contents have been interfered with or altered in any way,'' said the expert who has worked with US law enforcement agencies. ''There is no sign of data being added. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the real deal,'' he added.
Emails expose desperate pleas for Hunter to get help from his family. An email from his first wife, Kathleen, says: "You told me if you started drinking again it would kill you. I feel like you are torturing me." The Biden Files include log-in details and passwords for many sex sites and many payments to women whose names link back to escort websites. One message from the Jasmin porn site, shows Hunter's attempt to buy credit was "declined due to insufficient funds on the credit card".
A source told Daily Mail, "He has always dreamed about making a story about his life." Some of the titles of his lifestory were found, such as, 'A Mystery to Myself: (A really seriously tragic dramatic comedy)', 'In the span of eight years: My father is elected Vice President of the United States', 'I loose [sic] the entirety of my business, I find a new way of doing business and replace most my income, I relapse after 7 years of sobriety, I go back to rehab' and 'The secret service follow me'. There are also oil paintings of a naked Hunter lounged across an unmade bed and pictures of a tattoo on his back that appears to show long, black scratch marks running from his shoulders to his waist.
The source told Daily Mail, ''In his mind he's a Renaissance man. He writes poetry and wants to have a movie made of his life. But, as with most things, these are just pipe dreams. The reality is Hunter is a liability for his father. If Joe wins, one of the first tasks will be figuring out how to keep Hunter out of trouble for the next four years."