Ten mistaken password attempted over 3 hours...... yep a mistake, oh and I read it was somewhere between 15 to 31 phones depending on which article I read. Of course these mistakes all happened just after the IG asked for the phones. Wow government at its finest!
It would be interesting to find out how the phones were provisioned. Erase data after 10 failed attempts has to be enabled either by the user or provisioning software.