The Federal Bureau of Investigation has successfully retrieved long-deleted messages from the Signal messenger application. According to a report by 404 Media, the intelligence agency managed to extract this information from the internal notification database of an iPhone.
Within the scope of a specific case, FBI agents recovered communications from the device belonging to an individual implicated in the incident involving fireworks being set off at the ICE Prairieland detention center in Texas. Even though the Signal application had already been uninstalled from the phone by the time of the investigation, the FBI was still able to pull the incoming messages from the operating system’s database.
One theory, as relayed by the publication, suggests that the data retrieval was accomplished via an iPhone backup, utilizing proprietary law enforcement tools designed to exploit system vulnerabilities for data access.
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