The Associated Press, USA Today, and Vice Media sued the FBI for keeping the hack secret. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the District of Columbia ruled Saturday that the information on vendor and hacking tool used is exempt from mandatory disclosure under the government transparency law. The judge also agreed with the US government that revealing the price the government paid for unlocking iPhone could harm national security. Last year, former FBI Director James Comey indirectly disclosed that the agency reportedly paid around $1.3 million for the hacking tool that helped the agency break into Syed Farook’s iPhone 5C.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/apple-fbi-iphone-unlock.html