FBI Worked with Israeli Company to Crack iPhone

(Bloomberg) Yaacov Benmeleh - The FBI worked with Israel's Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization Ltd. to crack the iPhone used in the shooting last year in San Bernardino. The FBI had been locked in a standoff with Apple Inc. for a month over accessing data on the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook in the attack. Apple refused to comply with a court order to unlock the phone. Cellebrite is a unit of Japan's Sun Corp., whose shares are up almost 40% since March 21 when U.S. authorities said a third party had demonstrated a way to get into the iPhone.


2016-03-31 00:00:00

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