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Hunter Biden sues Trump ally Rudy Giuliani over data breach allegations

The lawsuit by US President Joe Biden's son Hunter accuses Giuliani and lawyer Robert Costello of spending years 'hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over' the data [File: Patrick Semansky/AP Photo]

United States President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has sued Rudy Giuliani and another attorney, saying the pair wrongly accessed and shared his personal data after obtaining it from the owner of a computer repair shop in the US state of Delaware.

The lawsuit on Tuesday is the latest in a new strategy by Hunter to strike back against Republican allies of former President Donald Trump, who have traded and passed around his private data – including purported emails and embarrassing images – in their effort to discredit his father.

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