Apple Fixes Security Bug That Allowed Law Enforcement to Access Deleted iPhone Messages
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Summary
Apple has released a software update fixing a security bug that allowed law enforcement to extract deleted messages from iPhones and iPads. The bug caused notifications containing message content to remain cached on devices for up to a month, even after messages were deleted or disappeared from apps like Signal. This vulnerability enabled forensic tools to access supposedly deleted communications.
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· 4 pulledApple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically from messaging apps.
This was because notifications that displayed the messages' content were also cached on the device for up to a month.
In a security notice on its website, Apple said that the bug meant 'notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device.'
The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.
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