Privacy Flaw Discovered In Apple’s AirDrop Function – channelnews – ChannelNews

A team of German security researchers have highlighted a security flaw that allows the phone number and email addresses of AirDrop users to be obtained by hackers, even if you don’t actually send a file.
Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt claim they informed Apple of the privacy breach two years ago, but Apple have neither acknowledged the issue, nor moved to fix it.
As an attacker, it is possible to learn the phone numbers and email addresses of AirDrop users even as a complete…

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