PulseAugur
EN
LIVE 06:37:03

Apple's Hide My Email feature has a year-old vulnerability

By PulseAugur Editorial · [4 sources] ·

A vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email feature, which creates anonymous email addresses for users, has been reportedly exploitable for over a year. Researchers at EasyOptOuts discovered the flaw and alerted Apple, but the company has not yet implemented a fix. This vulnerability could allow malicious actors to link the anonymous email addresses back to users' real personal emails, potentially exposing them to spam and data trackers. AI

IMPACT This vulnerability could expose users to increased spam and data tracking through a privacy feature.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses a vulnerability in a specific product feature, not a core AI model release or significant industry-wide event.

Read on Mastodon — fosstodon.org →

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 4 sources. How we write summaries →

Apple's Hide My Email feature has a year-old vulnerability

COVERAGE [4]

  1. Engadget TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Anna Washenko) ·

    Apple's Hide My Email may not be hiding anything

    A vulnerability can reportedly connect real email addresses to anonymous ones.

  2. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Bruno Ferreira ·

    Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

    Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem.

  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a ye… Ap

    Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a ye… Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a yea…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/apples-hide-my-email-s… tomshardware.com/tech-industry
  4. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Apple’s Hide My Email feature might not be so private after all The company's been failing to patch a Hide My Email vulnerability for more than a year now. http

    Apple’s Hide My Email feature might not be so private after all The company's been failing to patch a Hide My Email vulnerability for more than a year now. https://www. androidauthority.com/apple-hid e-my-email-vulnerability-3683561/ # Tech # Technology # TechNews # AI # Gadgets …

    LINKS androidauthority.com/apple-hide-my-email-…

RELATED ENTITIES

RELATED TOPICS