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From arstechnica.com - June 2, 2020 9:52 AM

Sign in with Apple—a privacy-enhancing tool that lets users log in to third-party apps without revealing their email addresses—just fixed a bug that made it possible for attackers to gain unauthorized access to those same accounts.

“In the month of April, I found a zero-day in Sign in with Apple that affected third-party applications which were using it and didn’t implement their own additional security measures,” app developer Bhavuk Jain wrote on Sunday. “This bug could have resulted in a full account takeover of user accounts on that third party application irrespective of a victim having a valid Apple ID or not.”

Jain privately reported the flaw to Apple under the company’s bug bounty program and received a hefty $100,000 payout. The developer shared details after Apple updated the sign-in service to patch the vulnerability.

Sign in with Apple debuted in October as an easier and more secure and private way to sign into apps and websites. Faced with a mandate that many third-party iOS and iPadOS apps offer the option to sign in with Apple, a host of high-profile services entrusted with huge amounts of sensitive user data adopted it.

 

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