"Apple stated that the bug meant 'notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device.' This issue allowed law enforcement to extract deleted messages from iPhones and iPads."
"Signal president Meredith Whittaker emphasized that 'notifications for deleted messages shouldn't remain in any OS notification database,' highlighting the privacy concerns raised by the bug."
"Privacy activists expressed alarm when they learned that the FBI had found a way around a security feature used daily by at-risk users, raising significant concerns about user privacy."
Apple released a software update addressing a bug that allowed law enforcement to retrieve deleted messages from iPhones and iPads. The issue stemmed from notifications displaying message content being cached for up to a month, even after deletion. This vulnerability was highlighted by 404 Media, revealing that the FBI could extract deleted Signal messages using forensic tools. Signal's president urged Apple to rectify the problem, emphasizing that deleted message notifications should not persist in any notification database. Apple backported the fix to older iOS versions.
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