Apple Secretly Had a 'Double Agent' in the iPhone Leaker Community

The guy could also be over-inflating his worth and involvement in the Apple leak market. Likely scenario is the guy turns over a lot of unsolicited information he gleaned from the same sources Apple is already aware of that is neither new or useful to them and is indignant when they refuse to pay him for doing something they never asked him to do in the first place.
 
Jarman74 said:
Not a fan of this shady, back-alley maneuvering. Customers expect better from Apple.
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Customers have no clue what happens in the inner sanctum of most of these companies. Stop expecting anything from a company no one told you to put on pedestal.
 
swingerofbirch said:
I mean after the car thing turned out to be a dud and you can see how bad they've gotten at just iterative software, they could rumor a spaceship and it wouldn't matter. Have they done anything unpredictable in years? The most exciting thing they do is ship software updates that cause HomePods to catch on fire.

It's now more like General Electric Rumors.
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And yet here you are, not just consuming but engaging with the rumors and rumor mongers. Kinda calls your judgement into question one way or the other, doesn’t it?
 
MacRumors said:


For more than a year, a member of the iPhone leaks and jailbreaking community was actually serving as a "double agent" for Apple by secretly providing the company with information about other leakers, according to Motherboard.

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The report claims that Andrey Shumeyko, who was known as "YRH04E" online, advertised internal Apple information and stolen devices for sale on platforms like Twitter and Discord. However, unbeknownst to other members of the community, the report adds that he was secretly providing Apple's Global Security team with information that could help the company crack down on leaks and the individuals responsible for them.

In May 2020, after a pre-release version of iOS 14 was leaked online, the report claims Shumeyko provided Apple with information about an individual who allegedly helped "orchestrate" the leak by purchasing a stolen iPhone 11. The prototype device was allegedly loaded with an early development build of iOS 14 intended for internal use by Apple employees, prior to the software being announced at WWDC in June 2020.

Shumeyko added that, in the summer of 2020, he informed Apple that he had been in contact with an Apple employee in Germany who worked on Apple Maps. The employee was allegedly offering to sell access to an internal Apple account used to access corporate emails and other internal materials on Apple's intraweb. Shumeyko said that he kept in touch with the employee and later learned that he had been fired by Apple.

Shumeyko said that by serving as an informant for Apple, he hoped he would be able to redeem himself for being a former participant in the iPhone leaks community, and he also hoped there would be a financial incentive for his cooperation. Shumeyko said he repeatedly asked if it would be possible for him to be paid for his information, but Apple was apparently noncommittal, and he is now speaking out after feeling taken advantage of.

"I just wanted to be heard for once, and the story I tell to be truthful," Shumeyko said, according to the report, adding that he does not care what anyone will think of him now that his role as a "double agent" has been revealed.

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i’m not sure why he’d be outing his L so publicly like this: he thought he could somehow deputize himself on his own accord without any official or preexisting involvement with apple, acting as kind of a independent, snaky, self-righteous double agent with the hail mary dream of maybe a magnanimous Apple bestowing upon him a couple crumbs—hell, maybe even tim cook himself would thank him personally and let him take his place based purely on the purity of his actions!—and now that none of his aspirations came true, he’s telling everyone about his crazy dreams with the implication that everyone else will somehow be sympathetic to his simpering self
 
He destroyed his name for Apple, now everybody hates him. 🤣 Have fun finding a new job where trust is a requirement.
 
diego.caraballo said:
Secret conversations only happens in Signal/Telegram 😂

"At the end of the email chain, an Apple employee asked if Shhumeyko was free for a chat.
"What’s the number you use for Signal/Telegram? We will assign a member of the team to reach out," the employee wrote."
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You forgot IRC.
 
Does this guy want to get paid? He will be lucky if Apple's legal department doesn't press charges. Moron.
 
Internet Enzyme said:
i’m not sure why he’d be outing his L so publicly like this: he thought he could somehow deputize himself on his own accord without any official or preexisting involvement with apple, acting as kind of a independent, snaky, self-righteous double agent with the hail mary dream of maybe a magnanimous Apple bestowing upon him a couple crumbs—hell, maybe even tim cook himself would thank him personally and let him take his place based purely on the purity of his actions!—and now that none of his aspirations came true, he’s telling everyone about his crazy dreams with the implication that everyone else will somehow be sympathetic to his simpering self
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Yeah, it seems crazy until you read this thread and realize how many people managed to turn this into an anti-Apple cause. Nobody seems to be making this guy into a hero, but then nobody is going to remember him either way. He’s succeeding in giving Apple bad PR for a day because there’s a ready army of drones so fixated on trying to attack the company that they don’t even seem aware that this story pretty much doesn’t involve Apple at all. Best I can tell, Apple reacted about the same way they do when I report a bug in Mail.

This whole event seems to have taken place in this guy’s head.
 
MacRumors said:
Shumeyko said that by serving as an informant for Apple, he hoped he would be able to redeem himself for being a former participant in the iPhone leaks community, and he also hoped there would be a financial incentive for his cooperation. Shumeyko said he repeatedly asked if it would be possible for him to be paid for his information, but Apple was apparently noncommittal, and he is now speaking out after feeling taken advantage of.
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Lmao, the redemption arc storyline kills me. Honey, you did it for money, you ain't gotta lie.

And it's funny that you're the one who feels taken advantage of, after you spent years leaking Apple's information. The privilege, I cannot 😂
 
Well, this pretty much ensures that no one else will ever come forward with info on where they get their leaks.
 
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