A newly tracked Google Pixel security flaw could have enabled hackers to recover edited images.
The flaw went unnoticed for the last five years.
The flaw is being tracked as the Acropalypse.
- Hackers have reportedly used the flaw to restore the photo of a credit card that had its information covered using the Markup tool.
- Hackers recovered the original version of the picture and later uploaded it as proof.
- The researchers reported the flaw to Google in January 2023, and Google patched it on March 13, 2023.
- Researchers believe that the security flaw was found by hackers from how the image file was opened for editing, leaving truncated data behind.
- The flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-21036.
