Apple Sat On 'Hide My Email' Flaw Leaking Real iCloud Addresses For Over A Year
Since the introduction of premium iCloud+ in 2021, Apple has offered a privacy-centric feature for its users dubbed Hide My Email. Conceptually, Hide My Email allows iCloud+ users to create anonymous burner email accounts that can't be tied back to their original email accounts, but a vulnerability was found in June 2025 that allows the original account to be found anyway. Seeing as this nullifies the main benefit of Hide My Email entirely, privacy advocates are rightfully concerned.
To make matters worse, per statements made to 404 Mediaby co-founder of EasyOptOuts and exploit finder Tyler Murphy, Apple still has yet to fix the issue. Last Murphy heard, it was meant to be fixed within "the coming weeks" at the end of May, but here in July the fix has yet to arrive. That means for a solid year, Apple has been aware of the issue but still has not...
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