Apple's AirTag tracker hasn't even been out for a week yet, but the conversation surrounding the product hasn't really gone the way that the company would have preferred. Not long after the AirTag was announced, privacy groups were already sounding the alarm about potential malicious use cases, warning that abusive partners could use the device to keep track of their victims. This was backed up by a Washington Post report which found that the AirTag made it "frighteningly easy" to stalk someone, and that the built-in security measures were not sufficient.
Needless to say, this wasn't exactly how Apple wanted the first weeks of the AirTag's existence to go, but to top it all off, someone decided to hack the tracker over the weekend as well. On Saturday, IT security research and YouTube content creator stacksmashing announced on Twitter that he had "managed to break into the microcontroller of the AirTag." He was then able to re-flash the microcontroller and modify elements of the AirTag software.
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Someone already hacked Apple’s AirTag, and there’s video proof 😮 originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 10 May 2021 at 15:28:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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