For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers’ real email addresses. Apple only fixed the issue after 404 Media covered it.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49789586

For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers’ real email addresses. Apple only fixed the issue after 404 Media covered it.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    11 days ago

    The class action lawsuit against Apple seeks full recovery of the subscription costs customers paid for the feature and an injunction against Apple for its “deceptive conduct,” PCMag reported.

    That would be nice, since I’m extremely affected by this!

  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    TLDR; If an email sent to one of your generated addresses was sent to spam (so literally the main utility of the service), your real email was exposed to the sender