>"According to a lawsuit that was filed last week in Hawaii District Court, a man named Michael Scott Jewson was terminated from CyberLynk. From his parents' residence, he allegedly accessed CyberLynk's data and intentionally wiped it out. Jewson is alleged to have been charged in February with a federal computer crime violation and admitted his guilt in a plea agreement.

The data breach allegedly knocked out 6,480 WER1 electronic files, or 300 gigabytes of data, comprising two years of work from hundreds of contributors globally, including animation artwork and live action video production."

These sort of reports often over do it with the use of "allegedly" as an attempt to mitigate any libel claim.

"Jewson is alleged to have been charged"

Surely it's a matter of record whether he was charged. If the reporter can't even confirm this then they don't have a story.

"The data breach allegedly knocked out 6,480 WER1 electronic files"

Again they don't need that "allegedly", it's presumably a reported fact, the allegation they have to be wary off is the one that says the person responsible.

This really annoys me, allegedly.