Apple's Hide My Email could be exposing your real email address

Not ideal, particularly it’s been a year and reportedly fixed by Apple, yes issue seems to still exist.

I don’t use this feature, but the whole premise is bit on privacy. If it doesn’t provide that privacy it’s pointless. Perhaps the domain name change widely reported is related to a fix, we’ll see.

We reported the issue to Apple over a year ago, and as of June 30, 2026, it still hasn’t been fixed. About a month ago, we realized that the vulnerabilities’ severity and scope are greater than we initially thought. We’re publicly disclosing the existence of the vulnerabilities now because we think Hide My Email users deserve to know that their email addresses may not actually be hidden.

We want people to be able to account for this risk when deciding when and how to use Hide My Email. Many thanks to Joseph Cox at 404 Media for acting as a trusted third party to verify and publicize the issue responsibly.

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