According to foreign media reports, Anthony Bartling and Jacqueline Olson recently filed a class action suit in San Jose federal district court, accusing Apple of failing to notify users of Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities that affect almost all modern processor operations.
The two claimed that the smartphone maker, knowing the vulnerabilities, could have been notified immediately about the vulnerability of A4 to A11 bionic chips used in their iOS and tvOS devices, rather than waiting until the tech scene earlier this month Announced after the storm.
The legal documents are summarized below:
ARM Holdings PLC, a company licensing the ARM architecture to Apple Inc., acknowledged that Google's Project Zeroo team received a security breach notice in June 2017 and immediately notified its infrastructure licensees (which may include Apple Inc. ), They created their own design of the existence of security vulnerabilities processors.
With the exception of Apple, the industry as a whole is trying to fully implement patches and mitigations because several companies in the technology arena are affected by these vulnerabilities, and as the norm in this case, individual companies are limited to disclosing the details of potential vulnerabilities, Until patches are made available for the user's safety, and Apple's earlier disclosure would violate the point of the application, potentially jeopardizing millions of devices.
Although it is still too early to tell if the plaintiffs can sue the technology giant successfully, they expect at least 100 more clients to become part of a class action lawsuit and claim the company will pay Apple more if the case goes to trial 500 million.
