Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
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Privacy<br>Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
Joseph Cox
Jul 1, 2026<br>at 6:00 AM
”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.
Photo by Laurenz Heymann on Unsplash.
A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year, according to a security researcher and 404 Media’s own tests.<br>404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses.
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