FBI Director Christopher Wray used the statistic to argue for encryption backdoors. The Washington Post reported that the FBI has admitted that the 7,800 number is a grossly inflated figment of FBI imagination. The bureau blamed the inaccuracy on the use of three distinct databases, which led to repeated counting of the same phones. The FBI issued this statement on Tuesday: “Going Dark remains a serious problem for the FBI, as well as other federal, state, local and international law enforcement partners””]