The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today rebutted accounts in the media, and implications by Apple, that it or San Bernardino County messed up when the iCloud password for the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook was reset days after a shooting that left 14 dead.

On Dec. 6, FBI investigators, with the approval of San Bernardino County and the assistance of its IT staff, reset the password of Farook’s iCloud account. San Bernardino County owned the iPhone 5C, had supplied it to Farook for his job as a health inspector, and controlled Farook’s iCloud account.

Forook, along with this wife, Tashfeen Malik, are accused of killing 14 in San Bernardino, Calif., on Dec. 2. They died four hours later in a shootout with police.

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