Researcher finds Find My ‘loophole’ to send messages over any iPhone’s data plan

Apple recently launched the AirTag, its first wireless object tracker, shortly after it officially opened up its Find My network to third party products in April. A security researcher has now managed to spoof the way an AirTag communicates with the Find My network to send messages over the mobile network of a nearby iPhone.

Discovered by security researcher Fabian Braunlien, Apple’s Find My network can be “exploited” to allow data to be sent over the network, according to a report by 9to5Mac which could result in any data plan of a nearby iPhone user being used without their permission — as long as it had Apple’s Find My enabled. This data was then sent over the company’s network and finally read on a Mac.