I actually think it could also have been something that resetted the T2 chip during the process.. I bought a new MacBook and wanter to transfer data using the

I actually think it could also have been something that resetted the T2 chip during the process.. I bought a new MacBook and wanter to transfer data using the cable / migration assistant. I think it froze. After that it wouldn't boot, and there was no partition table. The SSD worked after formatting though. The cable was a cable directly from Apple, but yeah product return fraud on Amazon could be scary with these kinds of attacks