A more elegant way to express this would be to say that it is less than fully believable. The more accurate way would be unprintable, as it should be.
As a former datamanagement professional I agree 100% with your assessment ,, there are literally hundreds of backups that have the data on them ,, full dumps of mail servers on both the sending and receiving ends and countless incremental backups...
I’d say it’s time to send all of them to jail,, including the mouthpiece that had the temerity to issue this statement.