A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit which claimed that Apple defrauded customers by selling iPhones and iPads whose processors proved vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws first disclosed in 2018.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California said customers failed to prove that they overpaid for their devices because Apple knowingly concealed defects, and provided security patches that made its devices significantly slower.
The lawsuit was filed after Apple and other companies including Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google revealed the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, which could let hackers access computer devices and steal their memory contents, in January 2018.
Apple customers claimed that the Cupertino, California-based company learned about the defects in June 2017, but said nothing until after the New York Times reported on the flaws.
Davila, however, said the customers did not show they relied on Apple’s marketing, and that the company’s assertions that its products were “secure” and built “with your privacy in mind” were too general to support their claims.
MacDailyNews Note: Previously, similar lawsuits against other manufacturers including Intel and AMD have also been dismissed.
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This was the most overblown security issue ever. The exploit is extremely difficult to execute and there has not been a single documented exploit in the wild. The patch was worse then the vulnerability.