The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients' computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going to a website that contains malicious code.
The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.
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