Apple had a double agent to limit the leaks
Andrey Shumeyko had the role of a double agent with Apple on one side and the community of leakers and jailbreak developers on the other. He comes out of his silence today with Motherboard, believing that Apple used him without rewarding him.
A double agent to limit Apple product leaks
Andrey Shumeyko, who was known by the nicknames YRH04E or JVHResearch, managed to collect several confidential information about Apple. He was selling the information on Twitter and Discord. These could be applications not yet available, manuals for devices not yet marketed or even stolen devices.
In May 2020, after a preliminary version of iOS 14 was leaked online, the double agent provided Apple with information about an individual who helped orchestrate the leak by purchasing a stolen iPhone 11. The prototype had a preliminary version of iOS 14 intended for internal use by Apple employees, before the software was announced at WWDC in June 2020. Andrew decided to finally talk to the security team about it. Apple.
A discussion took place between the principal concerned and Apple, and this for a little while. He shared several pieces of information from people selling the prototypes in China and people buying them in the United States. Suffice to say that Apple had a nice database of leakers, allowing it to attack them behind.
In the summer of 2020, he informs that Apple that an employee in Germany working on the Plans app is selling an internal account to access Apple data. The double agent did not keep in touch with him, but later learned that Apple had fired him.
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Today, Andrey Shumeyko thinks Apple used it more than anything else for a simple reason: the iPhone maker didn’t pay for it. There have been requests, but the group refuses. Tim Cook’s company always wanted more information, without making a move behind it.
“I just wanted to be heard for once, and for the story I’m telling to be true”, did he declare. He adds that he doesn’t care what people think of him now that his role as a double agent has been revealed. Regarding his relationship with Apple, it’s more than calm at the moment.
