A class-action suit was filed against tech majors Apple Inc and T-Mobile in New York for failing to disclose a major security vulnerability to users that allowed bad guys to sneak into iMessage and FaceTime calls.
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As per the lawsuit, filed in the Southern District Court of NY by Tigran Ohanian and Reggie Lopez, a technical flaw, allowed Apple IDs to be still linked to T-Mobile SIM cards even if they were being recycled- making the previous owner receive communication-related iMessage and Facetime linked to the new owner of a T-Mobile SIM card.
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According to security experts, the said flaw existed since 2011 and so has made the plaintiffs file a privacy-related case in the court as Apple continued to mislead its customers despite the vulnerability in place.
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Since T-Mobile and Apple failed terribly in preventing the issue from occurring, both the companies might be eligible to disburse compensation to at least the impacted users of the account-related data breaches.
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Note 1-Â Ohanian and Lopez were touted as the victims to the iPhone and T-Mobile sim scam as messages meant for the latter were being addressed to Ohanian as he used the T-Mobile SIM card with the same number on a previous note.
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Apple, however, argues that the issue was fixed with an update in its iOS 12 operating system that needs a 2FA for the Apple iMessage and Facetime related communication flow to the actual user.
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A formal reaction to the lawsuit is awaited. But a source from T-Mobile states that the Telecom giant is well aware of the situation and will wisely deal with it through proper channels.
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Note 2– SIM recycling is a process when a new user is allotted with the same phone number used by a previous user who submitted the SIM sometime ago to the company for reasons.