Liberty Safe gave FBI access code to January 6 defendant's safe

Liberty Safe stored factory access codes for electronic safes in a central database and gave the code to the FBI under a search warrant for the home of Nathan Hughes, a defendant in the Capitol riot case, without a subpoena addressed to the company. After the scandal, the company allowed codes to be deleted from the database and requires a subpoena explicitly naming Liberty Safe.

• FBI obtained the safe code on August 30, 2023, during a search of a home in Arkansas
• Warrant covered Hughes's property, not Liberty Safe; no subpoena for the company
• Company stored factory codes for all electronic safes in a single database
• Now customers can delete the code, and requests require a subpoena to Liberty Safe