From a technical point of view
There is more truth to this statement
Than you realize.
Usually people think of two devices
When they think of a syncing relationship
Where new files and changes from one device
Are synced to another, often a server
But you CAN chain such relationships together
And if you did you could set up one server to rule them all
And in the darkness bind them
Because it would have all the files from all the servers and all the devices syncing to those servers.
Now I have no idea whether Awan did such a thing
But given that he worked for a member of
A cult of con-artists
Who regularly made use of blackmail
This is not beyond the bounds of probability