$100 store-bought kit can help anyone hack into iPhone passcodes

Technique known as NAND mirroring, which focuses on bypassing limit on password retry attempts, can be used to break into any model up to the 6

The FBI paid more than $1.3m to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5C, but one computer scientist from Cambridge University has shown that the passcodes can be hacked using a store-bought kit worth less than $100.

Sergei Skorobogatov demonstrated a technique known as NAND mirroring - dismissed by the FBI director, James Comey, as being unworkable - to break into any model of iPhone up to the iPhone 6, including the iPhone 5C. He outlined the attack in a paper published last week as well as a YouTube video.