The move isn’t surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260326195046/https://www.404media.co/apple-gives-fbi-a-users-real-name-hidden-behind-hide-my-email-feature/



No it’s actually still really easy, even more so in this example where it was just corruption for personal benefit and not used against any kind of legitimate threat to the public.