There is surely a backup somewhere. Even if the physical drives were destroyed, there is still a way to recover data. I suspect that he was a user of a cloud-based service, and may have even shared his images with others. Remember the middleman, that third party operator that directed phone calls, or the ISP monitoring data nodes. Most importantly, we already have it all. I could also imagine that there are at least a few white hats in [No Such Agency], but in my opinion, DIA is where’d I be, especially regarding the international nature of the crimes committed.