Apple Store Employee Reportedly Being Spied on via iMessage Bug ⇥

Jacqui Cheng:

It seems as if the employee in question, who Gizmodo is referring to as Wiz, put his own SIM into the customer’s son’s iPhone to activate it before putting the SIM back into his own phone. (If this is indeed what happened, then we must say we’re surprised an Apple employee had not heard about this bug before doing so.) Now, the customer’s son is seeing all the messages sent between Wiz and his friends, which apparently include some borderline “sexts,” photos that are inappropriate to publish in full, and other personal details. In one exchange, it appears as if Wiz is attempting to hook up with his coworker at the Apple Store. (Don’t do that, Wiz! You’ll regret it!)

This is a pretty serious bug, and one that because of Apple’s policies, nobody knows how close a patch is to shipping.

Update

Carter Allen points out that it’s also Gizmodo being a gigantic dick, as usual:

@nickheer More serious than the bug is the fact that Gizmodo is using it to spy on someone. That’s insane.