Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
Apple has patched a vulnerability in its 'Hide My Email' feature that allowed unauthorized parties to discover users' real email addresses. The fix followed a year of internal reports and subsequent public pressure from 404 Media.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the importance of corporate accountability in cybersecurity and the role of independent media in forcing timely software patches.
Apple says it has fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email feature which let essentially anyone figure out a user’s real email address which was supposed to be protected by the feature. Apple only fixed the vulnerability after 404 Media wrote about it at the start of July, despite Apple knowing about the issue for more than a year.
The news also follows the filing of a class action lawsuit against Apple over the vulnerability.
On Wednesday Apple told 404 Media it deployed a patch for the issue on July 3, which the company says has fully resolved the issue.
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