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Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years

By Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn

Apr 23 2020 6:49AM

But Apple is planning to fix the flaw.

Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years

Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated ...

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