I wonder how they did it. The sync data is supposed to be protected by E2EE where the key is derived from the user password or an separate sync password, at least before I abandon Chrome and go FF few years ago.
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Encrypted between... Chrome and Chrome? Two installations of Google's non-FOSS browser? You never really had control over that data.