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Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ Privacy Flaw Exposes Real Email Addresses

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STIX ID: report--c34c7b4e-32eb-5705-ae15-f52c2306d7b8

Feed Name: TechRepublic Security

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2026-07-02

Date Updated: 2026-07-03

Author: Joseph Ofonagoro

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Researchers at EasyOptOut reported a vulnerability in Apple’s Hide My Email (iCloud+) feature that may leak users’ real email addresses to websites. Apple provided two remediations that the researchers claim were bypassable; the researchers are withholding exploitation details until Apple delivers a full fix and have recommended temporarily limiting alias creation and notifying affected users.

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