After 10 failed logins, Giuliani had Apple Store wipe his iPhone: Report

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On January 12, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump named Rudy Giuliani to be his cybersecurity advisor. A month later, on February 7, Giuliani walked into a San Francisco Apple Store with a problem: his iPhone had gotten locked down after 10 unsuccessful passcode attempts, NBC reports.

iPhones are designed to become permanently inaccessible after 10 failed login attempts. Rudy-who is now Trump's personal lawyer-had little choice but to wipe the phone and start over.

"Proceeded with DFU [device firmware update] restore and will set up the phone again from a current iCloud backup," an Apple store employee wrote in Apple's internal database.

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