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China claims it cracked Apple's AirDrop to find numbers, email addresses

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Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2024-01-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Lawrence Abrams

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A Beijing state-backed institute claims to have cracked hashed identifiers in Apple AirDrop device logs—using rainbow tables to recover phone numbers, email addresses, and device names—and says Chinese authorities used this technique to identify individuals who shared content via AirDrop.

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