“Illegal access to employee iPhone”: Apple sues Leaker

Escalation in the Apple Leaker environment: The iPhone manufacturer has sued Jon ProSser, a well-known YouTuber, because he is forbidden to acquire business secrets and illegally access the developer iPhone of an Apple employee. Loud the lawsuit“On which Macrumors reported first, Apple wants compensation not only from ProSser, but also from another person, Michael Ramacciotti. The latter is said to have had a friend at Apple, whose device was accessed in order to be able to report in advance about Apple’s new “Liquid Glass” look in the upcoming iOS 26. ProSser denied the allegations on x And wrote that there was no such “plot” to access an iPhone. He doesn’t know how the situation had taken place. “So things on my side did not expire.” He is looking forward to talking to Apple about it.

YouTube video with exact details

ProSser had succeeded in spreading quite precise details on the new design months before the announcement of iOS 26 at the WWDC developer conference. Among other things, he showed a possible redesign of Apple’s camera app and a new variant of the news app and partially rounded areas that Apple also implemented. According to ProSser, the design was replicated according to information he had obtained. According to Apple’s lawsuit, ProSser managed to get access to an Apple employee’s iPhone via detours. Ramacciotti therefore had a friend at Apple, the employee Ethan L.

According to Apple, ProSser and Ramacciotti are said to have agreed to access LS developer iPhone as soon as it was not present for a long time. To do this, Ramacciotti apparently got the pass code for the iPhone and also used local data to determine LS whereabouts. When L. was gone, Ramacciotti gave access to the device and presented the new look via Facetime. This call is said to have been recorded by ProSser and then processed for a video. Ramacciotti is said to have been offered a “financial compensation” by ProSser, Apple claims.

Apple employee released

In her complaint, Apple’s lawyers continue to write that LS iPhone contained “significant amounts of other Apple business secrets” about which has not yet been spoken publicly. You don’t know how many of them are owned by ProSser and Ramacciotti. Apple’s lawsuit is to the points of embezzlement of business secrets and violation of the so-called computer Murd and Abuse Act, an anti-hacking law.

The two sueds should refrain from publishing further business secrets and returning them. Incidentally, L. has now been released because he is said to have violated Apple’s security policy because he failed to protect his developer iPhone. L. is also not said to have informed Apple directly after he had learned from the ProSser video that it was his apartment, which could be seen in the Facetime call. Apple wants to have learned about an anonymous email from the matter. The lawsuit was submitted in front of the United States District Court in the Northern District of California (Case: 3: 25-CV-06043).