Apple's 'Hide My Email' Reportedly Exposes Your Real Email Address
Apple's "Hide My Email" feature is essential to my privacy and security setup. Almost every time I create a new login account, particularly when I don't fully trust the company behind it, I mask my real email address with Hide My Email. If the company in question turns out to be shady and decides to sell my email address, or suffers a data breach and leaks it instead, no worries: They never had my real email to begin with. At least, they're not supposed to. Hide My Email has a privacy and security problem As reported by 404 Media's Joseph Cox , Hide My Email has a vulnerability that can expose the email addresses behind Hide My Email's aliases. The details here are slim, and that's by design: This is an active security vulnerability, and revealing too much could spread the exploit even further. But according to Tyler Murphy, co-founder of EasyOptOuts, "almost anyone" can tap into this vulnerability to learn the real email address behind any H...
