Security News > 2020 > May > FBI finally unlock shooter’s iPhones, Apple berated for not helping
2020-05-20 11:34
The FBI said on Monday that it figured out how to unlock the iPhones of the shooter who killed three young US Navy students and injured eight at a Pensacola, Florida naval base in December 2019.
Thanks to the great work of the FBI - and no thanks to Apple - we were able to unlock Alshamrani's phones.
Both gave FBI workers a pat on the back for the months they spent working to unlock the damaged iPhones.
In January, following the shootings, the bureau had asked Apple to help it unlock two iPhones that belonged to murderer Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani.
The last was seen as a possible reference to the tool that the FBI used to finally break into Farook's encrypted phone and thereby render moot the FBI versus Apple legal battle over encryption.