Motherboard berichtet reported on a box capable of cracking an iPhone’s PIN.

The GrayKey itself is a small, 4×4 inches box with two lightning cables for connecting iPhones, according to photographs published by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The device comes in two versions: a $15,000 one which requires online connectivity and allows 300 unlocks (or $50 per phone), and an offline, $30,000 version which can crack as many iPhones as the customer wants. Marketing material seen by Forbes says GrayKey can unlock devices running iterations of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 11, including on the iPhone X, Apple’s most recent phone.

So it’s advisable to replace the numeric PIN with an alphanumeric passcode.

You can find the setting on iOS as follows:

Einstellung > Touch ID & Code > Pin eingeben > Code ändern > alten Pin eingeben > Codeoptionen > Neuen Pincode eingeben > noch einmal eingeben > fertig.

Thanks tarah

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