Ex-DEA Agent Seeks Court Order Granting Him Access to His Dead Wife’s Apple Account

Karl Perman, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent, seeks a court order directing Apple to provide him access to the account of his deceased wife, Niko Honaibakhsh, said his petition Thursday (docket 3:24-mc-80154) in U.S. District Court for Northern California. Honaibakhsh, 44, was killed in February in Tulum, Mexico, when she was caught in the crossfire of a Mexican cartel shootout. Several Apple representatives have told Perman that he would be permitted to reset the password and security question to his wife’s two iPhones and her iPad only if he gets a court order specifying that he's the administrator or legal personal representative of his wife's estate, said the petition. “Since her passing, I have been working to pull together her materials into one place so that I can preserve them and remember her,” said the petition.