By Sky News US Team
The CIA has worked for nearly a decade to break the security protecting Apple phones and tablets, according to a report citing documents obtained from Edward Snowden.
Investigative news website The Intercept said on Tuesday the top-secret programme was aided by British intelligence services.
The report said efforts to break into Apple products started as early as 2006, a year before the introduction of the first iPhone, and continued as recently as 2013.
US government researchers reportedly built a version of XCode - Apple's software application development tool - to create surveillance backdoors into programmes distributed on Apple's App Store.
The attempt to hack "secure communications products, both foreign and domestic" also targeted Google Android phones, the report said.
The Intercept stopped short of saying whether the CIA successfully cracked Apple's encryption coding.
An Apple spokesman pointed to public statements by CEO Tim Cook on privacy, but declined to comment further.
"I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services," Cook wrote in a statement published last year.
"We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will."
Apple and other top technology companies have been working to restore faith among consumers concerned that products have become tools for widespread government surveillance.
In September, Apple strengthened encryption methods for data stored on iPhones.
The company said the changes meant it no longer had any way to extract customer data even if a government ordered it to with a search warrant.
Google Inc announced shortly afterward it also planned to increase the use of stronger encryption tools.
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