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May 8, 2017 03:16 pm GMT

The FBI paid $900,000 to break into the San Bernardino iPhone

The FBI shelled out nearly seven figures to break into the infamous San Bernardino iPhone, according to a senator who may have let the world know with a slip of her tongue. 

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said last week that the FBI paid an outside group $900,000 to access the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook — information that's supposed to be classified. Farook and his wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, on Dec. 2, 2015.

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“I was so struck when San Bernardino happened and you made overtures to allow that device to be opened, and then the FBI had to spend $900,000 to hack it open,” Feinstein said said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week. “And as I subsequently learned of some of the reason for it, there were good reasons to get into that device.” Read more...

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