FBI pays $1.3m to break into iPhone

FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job.

According to figures from the FBI and the US Office of Management and Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Without a raise or bonus, Comey will make $1.34 million over the remainder of his job.

That suggests the FBI paid the largest publicized fee for a hacking job in history, easily surpassing the $1 million paid by US information security company Zerodium to break into phones.