Apple Colmate Leaks. As seen by the specialized media macrumors, Apple filed a complaint against a YouTubeur, responsible for a massive data leak in the company. Since January 2025, Jon Prosser, cameraman with 558,000 subscribers behind the “FPT” channel. (Tech main page), revealed in several videos the various characteristics of iOS 26, long before the WWDC developer conference.
YouTubeur is notoriously known for distilling much information about the Cupertino company. With this test, Apple draws the fangs and no longer wants to risk such leaks. In his complaint, the company claims damage and damage, as well as a judicial decision that would prohibit the cameraman revealing specific information for Apple.
A well calculated leakage
According to the version told in Apple’s complaint, this mass leak would be the result of a strategy made without problems. Jon Prosser would have been by the way Michael Ramacciotti, himself a friend with a man named Ethan Lipnik, Apple engineer. The latter had a development iPhone in its possession, used to test the characteristics of the future version of iOS 26.
Michael would have temporarily stole Ethan’s iPhone, taking advantage of his absence. He would have managed to unlock the plane before calling Jon opposite, showing a lot of development functionalities in the future operating system.
YouTubeur would have taken the opportunity to record everything, to feed their videos with images. It would have begun in particular sharing the future design of the camera application, then messages. According to Apple’s version, Michael would have received money from Jon, or even a job opportunity for his services.
The mystery of perforated flight
Apple returned to the origin of the filtration thanks to an anonymous email. The latter had had access to the initial registration Facetime, where he recognized the apartment of Ethan Lipnik. The technological giant identified Michael Ramacciotti as initiator of the escape. By this mistake, Ethan Lipnik was fired.
After these accusations, Jon Prosser responded to X:
This complaint could also serve as a warning to other potential “leaks”, a name given to people who reveal development products to the general public, without the consent of the company.
Source: BFM TV
