a person familiar with the breach confirmed to CNN

They said this was an Iranian state actor so that’s what we’re going with. I mean, it must have been. /s

I have encountered issues with IA torrents in the past. My issue is explained here and may be related to what you are seeing:

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19747#issuecomment-1884145923

I manually copy it to Proton Drive and access it via android with KeepassDX

It’s the facial recognition piece that I find particularly concerning.

But federal immigration agents are using a facial recognition app called Mobile Fortify and U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently signed a contract with Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has accessed billions of images of peoples’ faces off the internet