FBI requests iCloud data from prominent US senator

The FBI has reportedly requested iCloud data from Apple from Senator Richard Burr, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. This is an insider trading case.

The FBI allegedly asked Apple for an iCloud backup from the senator and received it, LA Times reports citing multiple sources. The senator is under suspicion of selling shares in companies in the weeks before the price of those shares plummeted due to the coronavirus outbreak. As a senator, he was informed early about the seriousness of the corona outbreak.

Burr has already given his iPhone to the FBI, but they can’t search it right now due to a lack of warrant; the request to Apple would be to find more evidence that Burr is indeed guilty.

It happens more often that intelligence services request information from suspects, but as far as we know it is the first time in the US that an active politician is involved, who is also involved with intelligence services. Apple and the FBI have not responded to the LA Times.