Deprived of iCloud services because of… her last name. An American lost access to the online storage service ofApple for six months due to a bug in the software code. And this bug is quite simply due to the way the user provided her last name when registering.
By activating her iCloud account, Rachel True wrote her last name without capitalization, reports Engadget relayed by 01net. However, the term “true” is a Boolean value, namely an expression that the code interprets to activate commands. The situation caused a bug that locked the American’s iCloud account, the latter explained on Twitter on Saturday, March 6.
Anyone else getting this error from Apple iCloud ? In past or now?
I’m 6 months deep freeze & looking for any help.
I rem dead coding languages like kobalt.. & this seems like an Apple coding issue — not hardware pic.twitter.com/05EJmG3d6Y— Rachel True (@RachelTrue) February 27, 2021
A bug still not resolved six months later
Rachel True has repeatedly contacted Apple support to explain her problem and attempt to regain access to iCloud – to no avail. The monthly withdrawals linked to its subscription to Apple’s storage services have never stopped, however, for six months.
‘Apple has launched its security bounty programme in 2016 and offered researchers up to $200,000 to find and report vulnerabilities in the system’@apple your move, I’ve found a bug, identified it myself, am I a researcher?
— Rachel True (@RachelTrue) March 6, 2021
On Twitter, the user humorously questioned whether her mishap made her eligible for the Apple Bug Bounty. This program aims to reward developers who find bugs in the code of company programs. So Rachel True asked Apple if that made her a “Researcher” able to claim the tidy sum of 200,000 dollars.
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