The issue focused on what would happen if an employee with the same name was hired at another company and had access to the same company's technology and software.

But it also raised questions around the security of passwords stored by the company.

The government said it would seek to recover data, including the passwords and email addresses from the data, to identify the culprits, and to ensure their identities can't be used against the public.

A spokesman for Apple, which has said it's working to