U.S. State Department Buys GrayKey Box for Unlocking iPhones [Report]

The U.S. State Department has purchased a GrayKey box which can allegedly unlock most iPhone and iPad devices, reports Motherboard.

On March 6, the State Department ordered an item from Grayshift for just over $15,000, according to a purchase order listing available on the US government’s public federal procurement data system. The listing is sparse on details, putting the order under the generic label of “computer and computer peripheral equipment.” But Motherboard confirmed that the Grayshift in the State Department listing is the same as the one selling iPhone cracking tech: the phone number of the vendor in both the purchase order and documents Motherboard previously obtained detailing a GrayKey purchase by Indiana State Police is the same.




The GrayKey device can be used by law enforcement agencies to determine the passcode of an iPhone in about two hours; however longer six-digit passcodes can take up to three days.

For $15,000 the GrayKey device permits 300 uses in an online mode requiring constant connectivity. For $30,000, the device works offline with unlimited uses.

According to procurement records, the 'funding office' for the Grayshift purchase was the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. You can learn more about the device and how it works here.

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