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>Apologies, I am not technical, would someone with appropriate knowledge review the information and translate?

It seems like the phones are officially setup to send copies of text messages to a cloud server. Most likely they would be sent encrypted so they couldn't be read in transit. Those are the copies that went missing.

OIG is saying they found copies of the messages on the phone itself and not encrypted. So it was something along the lines of how websites save comments to a database. Someone linked the comments field of the messaging app to something like a mysql database that was saved on a hidden part of the phone, probably root owned. OIG geeks rooted the phone and went searching for weird shit in hidden folders and found it. Most likely means all phones were set up like that from the get go and users didn't know. Must be lots of puckering going on by others who thought they could circumvent the cloud collection.

That's my guess.