Lesson to all of us: Multiple off-site backups.
“Multiple off-site backups.”
Lots of us use iCloud or similar cloud storage backups. The problem is once they get into your phone, who knows what they planted in your cloud storage.
The other lesson is turn off facial recognition on your phone. Without that, they cannot get into your iPhone (not sure about Android). Remember the islamic terrorists who slaughtered the people at the Christmas party in Southern California? I think after that incident there was a lot of discussion about how the police couldn’t get into their phones without them automatically wiping the phone after a few tries.