Hacker NewsHN submitter: CGMthrowaway
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Claude Code found 145K photos I deleted from my iPhone sitting in a hidden cache
AI summary
Editorial policyA security audit using Claude Code revealed that approximately 145,000 photos and videos, which were supposedly permanently deleted from an iPhone, remained in a hidden cache.
Key points
- •An audit by Claude Code discovered that photos and videos deleted over three years were still present in a hidden cache.
- •The audit identified around 145,763 items that were assumed to be permanently removed but were still accessible.
- •The findings suggest that any application with file access permissions can easily read this residual data.