Security Researchers Uncover IP Leak Bug in Apple Private Relay
Apple's Private Relay, the company's privacy-focused feature introduced to help mask users' IP addresses from websites they visit, contains a bug that can leak users' actual IP addresses. The flaw undermines the core privacy promise of the feature, which routes web traffic through multiple relays to obscure user identity and location. Security researchers identified the issue, which arises from how the feature is implemented, potentially allowing websites to determine visitors' real IP addresses despite having Private Relay enabled. Apple has been notified of the vulnerability. Users who rely on Private Relay for enhanced privacy should be aware of this limitation while the company works on a fix.