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Couldn't the data be cloned and cracked off device without having to worry about the pin code?
Yes, but it's meant to be difficult to do. Encryption algorithms are designed and chosen to be expensive to crack, so that you'd need NSA-level clusters to find the key in our lifetime.
I don't know if you could attack the encryption controller itself to brute-force the PIN to release the key. I assume in theory it's possible, but unless you're a very desirable target, they probably won't spend the effort, and attack something weaker. Like your cell phone, or your kneecaps.
If they did it right it'd not store the key, but instead use something like PBKDF2