BY DAN LEVINE
The U.S. Justice Department said it successfully
accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino
shooters and asked a court to withdraw an order compelling Apple to assist,
according to a court filing on Monday.
The technology company fought a court order obtained
by the FBI last month that required it to write new software to disable
passcode protection and allow access to the phone used by one of the shooters,
Rizwan Farook.
Apple declined immediate comment on Monday.
U.S. officials said last week that they were hopeful
they would be able to unlock the iPhone without help from Apple.
In a two-page court filing on Monday, the Justice
Department said the government "no longer requires" Apple's
assistance.
At issue was a county-owned iPhone used by Farook, one
of the husband-and-wife shooters in the San Bernardino, California, shooting in
December in which 14 people were killed and 22 wounded. The couple died in a
shootout with police after the rampage.
(Reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco; Writing by
Eric Beech; Editing by Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)
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