Apple's iOS Source Code Allegedly Leaked By Former Intern

Earlier this week, a major chunk of Apple tree's proprietary iOS source code was leaked on GitHub anonymously. Information technology was related to i of the most pregnant components of the iOS operating organization, the bootloader, on the iPhone.

This acquired mass panic in the tech community but the Cupertino giant yesterday put out an official statement and asserted that the leaked iOS code was real and stemmed from iOS 9 (nosotros're running iOS eleven now), which was launched over three years agone. It also sent a copyright takedown claim to GitHub and we thought the state of affairs was all done and dusted.

Well, the plot thickens. New information has been unearthed by Motherboard, which uncovered the code leak in the first place. The publication has put out a follow-up and claims Apple's iOS boot source code was leaked by a former employee, i.e an intern.

According to sources connected to this development, the intern took the code from Apple tree and distributed it to a minor group of five individuals from the iOS jailbreaking community. He is as well said to have moved out with a multifariousness of internal tools and proprietary software.

This was not an intentional movement to demolition Apple tree similar one may believe at first.

"The person who stole the lawmaking didn't take an axe to grind with Apple. Instead, while working at Apple, they were encouraged to use their access to help their friends in the jailbreaking customs with their security enquiry by leaking them internal Apple code. And they did."

The then-called "biggest leak in history" is just a small-scale piece of what could be leaked and additional source lawmaking for iOS could still be floating out there. This has confirmed past sources and there is currently no fashion to pinpoint the leakster because the lawmaking was shared a long time ago and could at present be with more individuals.

As for how the lawmaking was passed around, the Apple intern sent the internal iOS lawmaking to a jailbreaking group who had planned to utilize information technology to move past iPhone'south defenses. Then the piece ofmoved across an inner circumvolve and was afterwards institute to have been shared on a Discord server. Information technology was too posted on Reddit for a brusque period of time and has become a menace for Apple tree. With regards to this, Motherboard adds

"This particular source lawmaking began circulating more widely in 2017 with a quaternary and fifth source who are familiar with the jailbreaking and iPhone research communities."

While Apple says there are no security implications of the leak equally the lawmaking has been updated for the latest iOS release, nosotros may withal have more to come in this latest controversy to striking the visitor. And so we're keeping an eye out till and so.