TikTok and other popular iOS apps are spying on your iPhone clipboard

Have you ever copied a password or perhaps even your credit card number on your iPhone in order to easily paste it onto a website form?

If you have, then it's likely you've just exposed that information to a slew of popular iPhone apps.

App developers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry recently published their research uncovering a major vulnerability with the cut-copy-paste feature on Apple iOS devices. The two developers found that Apple provides apps with the ability to read data stored in the system’s clipboard, officially called Pasteboard on iOS devices. Furthermore, they discovered that dozens of popular iPhone and iPad apps access this data every time a user opens them.  Read more...