Hunter Biden is suing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York Mayor’s attorney, alleging the pair violated his digital privacy and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by attempting to hack his personal devices.
Hunter’s legal team filed the civil lawsuit with a California District Court on Tuesday afternoon, accusing Giuliani and Robert Costello of “hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from” the son of the President’s devices.
The claim also argues the “[d]efendants are among those who have been primarily responsible for what has been described as the “total annihilation” of [the] Plaintiff’s digital privacy.” Hunter’s lawyers now demand a jury trial on the matter.
Giuliani and his team have long disputed the claim that they violated Hunter’s privacy on the grounds that the laptop was obtained only after he abandoned it, and could therefore be released to the public.
This is not the first instance of Hunter Biden filing a lawsuit over an alleged violation of his privacy after he sued the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop earlier this year.