Edison Mail rolls back update after iOS users reported they could see strangers’ emails

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Edison Mail has rolled suddenly a software update that believably let some users of its iOS app see emails from strangers' accounts.

Several Edison users contacted The Verge to residency seeing the glitch subsequential they applied the update, which was meant to allow users to sync data boiled devices. Reader Matthew Grzybowski said subsequential the update he had over-and-above than 100 unread reports from the UK-based email applicability of a stranger. He didn't gotta enter any ducat to see the emails, Grzybowski added.

Others on Twitter reported similar issues:

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-- Petter Magnusson (@MagnussonP) May 16, 2020

The congregation said it was a bug, not a security breach, as well-built as that the issue appeared limited to users of the iOS app.

"Ten hours ago a software update was rolled out to a small percentage of our user base. Some of these users who received the update are experiencing a flaw in the app impacting email finance that was brought to our caution this morning," the congregation said in an email to The Verge. "We have quickly rolled suddenly the update. We are contacting the impacted Edison Mail users (limited to a subset of those users who have useable as well-built as opened the app in the last 10 hours) to notify them."

We are urgently working to boldness this technical botheration in Edison Mail. Bygone a software update rolled out to a small percent of our users. We have changed that now as well-built as are reaching out to users who have been impacted as fast as we can.

-- Edison (@Edison_apps) May 16, 2020

Probably not a bad memorizing to modernity your password if you use Edison Mail neutral to be on the unscarred side.