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… If the findings hold up, they’d mark the second high-profile privacy issue involving an Apple subscription feature in recent weeks, following a flaw in Hide My Email that exposed users’ real email addresses before Apple eventually patched it. …
… The suit says that Apple was made aware of this flaw by a security researcher in June 2025, but left the issue unresolved while continuing to advertise the feature as a secure privacy tool. …
… Reporting from 404 Media this week revealed that a vulnerability in the system has made it possible, for at least a year, for people’s real email addresses to be uncovered when they are using Apple’s privacy service. “Apple Hide My Email is leaking email addresses that are supposed to be hidden,” s… …
… There are no further updates, it seems, and this is poor optics for a company that talks a big game about user data privacy . Neither the researcher nor 404 media divulged the exact mechanism, despite the one-year timeframe being well past the common 90-day security vulnerability disclosure window. …
… Not your standard disclosure Normally with high-profile vulnerabilities, security researchers discover them and then inform the company in question about their findings. …
… The researchers said in a post on X that they have already contacted OnionBrowser and the Tor Project, which provides the anonymity network the browser uses, to share their findings and solutions. …
… The Google factor definitely played a part in that, and despite Google's many assertions that it cares about user privacy I find myself struggling to believe it. …
… Counterpoint Research reports that premium smartphones $600+ wholesale grabbed a record 29% of global sales in H1 2026. …
… Ravichandran is eager to see how other researchers make use of Fractal to explore other microarchitectures. “Right now, my goal is to get this system out into the world so other researchers can benefit from it,” he says. “My hope is that Fractal becomes a community project with contributions from o…
… To be clear, I don’t want to knock researchers who use AI. The 26.6 release notes are proof that these tools are finding real, exploitable, patchable bugs across Apple’s ecosystem. …