New Lawsuit Filed Against Apple for 'Hide My Email' Privacy Vulnerability
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a bug in Apple's iCloud Hide My Email tool that appeared to reveal users' real email addresses to anyone who wanted to find them. On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in California, Alvarez v. Apple Inc., accusing Apple of false advertising, fraud and breach of contract for selling a privacy perk that it allegedly could not deliver.
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The Hide My Email feature, which lets you generate a temporary, anonymized email address with the iCloud.com domain, is often used to protect privacy when signing up for subscriptions or logging into new or unverified websites. The feature is currently available with a paid iCloud Plus subscription.
The lawsuit claims that a known security vulnerability in Hide My Email exposes the true email addresses behind the randomly generated email aliases. The suit says that Apple was...
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