“… contains CSAM and will be handled per policy”. A whopping 14.6 Terabytes of backup tapes restored from in 2025 – what exactly did they contain? And where is it all?

"Highly responsive material to include nude images and videos from digital evidence processed".

"… is secured until we can determine the best way to move forward with it (obscene material)".

"We are looking at a total of approximately 14.6 Terabytes of archived data to unpack".

Extracts from a series of FBI emails exchanged in March 2025. See the linked EFTA doc for full details, here.

EDIT: To be precise, the title should say "backup media", not "backup tapes", since one of the items is an optical disk, not a tape, though the majority are tapes. However, we can't edit post titles.