&quot;With the newly obtained AWS key... I queued up several buckets to download, and went to bed for the night.&quot;<p>He definitely took data off of Facebook&#x27;s server.<p>Also you misunderstand his access being denied was a firewall change earlier in his story. This was merely to speculate other systems he could have penetrated--completely separate from the S3 buckets he took data from.<p>From Facebook&#x27;s perspective it could very well have seemed like he went back for the goods since he submitted three separate reports, the last of which triggered the response. But this is also irrelevant, the question is whether he took data off or not and this is unambiguously yes, by Wes&#x27;s own admission.