FBI Says Shooter’s IPhone Accessed, Asks To Vacate Order Compelling Apple’s Help

Mealey's (March 29, 2016, 10:08 AM EDT) -- RIVERSIDE, Calif. — One week after a hearing was vacated in the battle between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Apple Inc. over the unlocking of the iPhone of San Bernardino, Calif., shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, the federal government government on March 28 filed a status report in California federal court stating that it had “successfully accessed the data storedfiled a status report in California federal court stating that it had “successfully accessed the data stored on” the phone and requesting that a Feb. 16 order compelling the unlocking of the encrypted phone by Apple be vacated (In the matter of the search of an Apple iPhone seized during the execution of a search warrant on a Black Lexus IS300, California License Plate 35KGD203, No. 5:16-cm-00010, C.D. Calif.)....