It seems Apple has decided to abandon its usual composure and strike with an iron fist to protect the secrets of its future devices. Following a massive and embarrassing data leak from one of its key supply chain partners in India, the American company has mobilized its forces to purge the X platform (formerly Twitter) of leaked videos that claim to show the highly anticipated iPhone 18 Pro undergoing rigorous drop tests.
Apple’s hammer strikes hard on the X platform
Over the past few hours, short videos began spreading like wildfire on the X platform, claiming to show a prototype of the iPhone 18 Pro in silver-gray while undergoing durability tests in laboratories. The clips showed a projected design with three rear cameras that are more prominent compared to the current iPhone 17 Pro, in addition to an Apple logo with a distinctive reflective finish on the back of the device.
It didn’t take long for Apple to intervene forcefully, prompting the X platform to delete those tweets and videos for violating intellectual property laws. The matter even reached the point of temporarily suspending the leaker’s account that posted the leak for the first time. In response, the famous leaker Evan Blass rushed to clarify the situation, confirming via his personal account that he had nothing to do with the account that posted those Apple leaks, and commented sarcastically that Apple has finally managed to do what Samsung failed to do for years in stopping leaks.
The campaign was not limited to deleting videos, but extended to reports and articles by famous tech sites that covered the news, with some of them immediately pulling their reports, either in response to a request from Apple and its ally Tata, or due to uncertainty about the authenticity of the videos and whether they were completely fake.
The Tata factory leak.. How did the crisis start?
This fierce war on videos is merely the aftershocks of a larger earthquake that recently hit Apple. A hacker group calling itself World Leaks announced a successful security breach of the systems of Tata Electronics in India, which is Apple’s strategic partner that it relies on to move its production out of China.
The breach resulted in the theft of more than 200,000 confidential files with a total size exceeding 630 GB. Despite attempts to keep it quiet, sources confirmed that the leaked files, which were circulated on the dark web, contained official documents bearing Apple’s watermark, precise details of components, supplier names, and codenames for future projects, in addition to photos and videos of drop test operations for the iPhone 18 Pro.
Apple is currently seeking, in cooperation with Tata Electronics, to contain the crisis, review security measures, and plug loopholes to prevent a recurrence of such a catastrophic security breach, especially since Tata is considered a fundamental pillar in Apple’s ambitious plans to expand in the Indian market and reduce total reliance on Chinese factories.
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