Apple will pay the teen who found the bug FaceTime group

The flaw discovered by Grant Thompson is the place where it was possible to listen to someone before it answered a call via Group FaceTime. Before playing at Fortnite, the teenager prepared the application so that he could chat with friends in a group.

Thompson, 14, who lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA, spoke to his mom about the safety issue with the Apple product. Michele Thompson has repeatedly tried to contact Apple, via email and social media, without success. Eventually, someone at Apple took notice of the message, reviewed it and confirmed that the privacy issue was real.

Apple has responded to this information and has temporarily removed the FaceTime Group offline and posted a patch through the iOS 12.1.4 security update. Now, the company, in terms of gratitude, has to pay a as a courtesy payment to the grant. This will be in the form of a payment to support Grant's future education plans. TechCrunch says payment will be taken from Apple's bug premium, a system designed to entice security researchers to claim a reward for privately submitting security bugs and vulnerabilities to the company for its hardware or apps .

This is not the only recent security hole that Apple has had to solve. The Verge describes another security issue related to FaceTime, which was also fixed in the latest iOS 12.1.4 update. The site quotes Apple: "In addition to resolving the problem that was reported, our team conducted a thorough security audit of the FaceTime service and updated additional applications for the FaceTime application and server so that it could be used. improve security. This includes a previously unidentified vulnerability in the Live Photos feature of FaceTime. To protect customers who have not yet upgraded the latest software, we have updated our servers to block the FaceTime Live Photos feature for older versions of iOS and macOS. "