The FBI paid professional hackers more than $ 1 million for breaking into the smartphone terrorist from San Bernardino. The journalists said the director James Comey Bureau, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The publication said that Komi did not name the exact figure, but stressed that the amount paid hackers, was more than the salary he will receive before the end of his term as director of the FBI. Up to this point only a little more than seven years.
Based on the fact that Komi salary is $ 180 thousand. Per year, hackers could get $ 1.26 million or more, calculated in the WSJ.
“We paid a lot. But it was worth it “, – said the Komi
The fact that the FBI has asked the hackers to crack iPhone Syed Farooq, told The Washington Post on April 13.. According to the newspaper sources, the information provided by hackers FBI, has been used to create a piece of hardware that has helped crack the four-digit code to unlock terrorist smartphone.
Sayed Farooq accused in the attack in the California San Bernardino, which resulted in killed 14 people. In mid-February 2016, Apple, despite the court order, refused to help the FBI of breaking Farouk smartphone.
At the same time, as the WSJ wrote in 2008, Apple has helped the US authorities to open more than 70 iPhone. The publication notes that Apple’s position on this issue has changed in 2013, after former NSA employee Edward Snowden published the information about the programs of spying on Americans and citizens of other countries. Then the company decided to increase the level of security of its products and has become to the demands of the authorities’ increasingly skeptical ».
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