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Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

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(Image credit: Getty Images) If you read or watch any privacy tutorial on the internet, one of the first tips will be to start using anonymized email addresses in some form — providing a fake email that redirects to your real one. Many email providers offer this functionality, and so does Apple's basic paid iCloud plan with the Hide My Email feature. But apparently Apple's implementation of the feature is trivial to crack — which means anyone can find your real email address with little effort, according to 404 Media . Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU The privacy vulnerability has been known to Apple for just over a year, and was first reported by Tyler Murphy, co-founder of data removal company EasyOptOuts. The folks at 404 Media claim they tested the vulnerability themselves and that, sure enough, it takes minimal effort to figure out the real address behind the fake alias — with a 100% success rate.…

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