Cybersecurity
Sun Corp. Soars on Ties to Company That Helped FBI Crack iPhone
- Japanese company owns Cellebrite, which worked with FBI
- Shares are up 40 percent since U.S. said it didn't need Apple
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Shares of Sun Corp., a Japanese maker of pinball-style games, have soared since reports surfaced that an Israeli company it owns helped the U.S. government hack into an iPhone involved in a terrorist attack.
The Tokyo-listed Sun is up more than 40 percent since March 21, when U.S. authorities said a third party had demonstrated a way of accessing data on the Apple Inc. iPhone used in the San Bernardino, California, mass shooting last year. That third party, according to people familiar with the matter, is Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization Ltd., which Sun Corp. has owned for almost a decade.