They did not. They merely claimed to have succeeded, and when you look at their proof, if you understand anything about file creation, you realize they did *NOT* prove their claim.
His claim is that because the file date on the data said it was created *AFTER* the election, it could not be a data file from the election.
Well sure it can. When someone opens it and saves it to a new media storage, it changes the file creation date on the copy. The guy was using a copy that had been created in this way, and so of course it won't have the correct file date.
The guy did *NOT* decript the data. He did *NOT* explain what the data meant. He tried a cheap trick to claim he had "proven" it wasn't part of an election steal.
Lindell lost in arbitration.
He got in over his head with his absurd “cyber symposium” and it cost him. From the Washington Times, August 11, 2021:
“But cyber expert Josh Merritt, who is on the team hired by Mr. Lindell to interrogate the data for the symposium, told The Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyber incursion by China.”