Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
- Apple's Hide My Email privacy feature contains a flaw allowing real email addresses to be recovered from masked addresses designed to conceal them
- A researcher reported the vulnerability to Apple over a year ago; despite claiming to address it, the flaw remains unfixed and exploitable
- Testing demonstrated 100% of masked addresses tested could be compromised to reveal the associated real email address
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s username rollout.







