Apple has identified Twitter user @analyst941 (and his sister, who is now an ex-Apple employee), who has of late been revealing information about unreleased Apple products, including the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island and Always On Display. The leaker has deleted their Twitter account and left a farewell message explaining what happened on the MacRumors forums, where they used “anonymous-A.S” as a handle.
Hello everyone.
This is my final message to everyone.
I will no longer be around, but you deserve a proper goodbye. I don’t want to share too many details right now because of the legality of things — but a multi-step sting has gotten my sister fired from Apple, and unfortunately I am afraid next is legal action being taken against both of us, separately.
I can’t believe I did this, I’m so sorry to my sister and Apple as a whole. I don’t know what else to say. I know she is destroyed, she also hates me right now, like I don’t even know that I have a sister anymore.
I don’t know if I even have a life beyond this, I don’t know what can happen at this point.
I enjoyed the ride, to any body out there who gets a source, keep the details at a minimum. It could be costly.
The breaking point was multiple, if not almost all who knew about FCP/Logic iPad development was given a unique combination of release dates — unfortunately the combination I shared on Twitter matched the combination given to my sister as the FCP+Logic timeframe, along with other small factors.
I may have shared too much here regarding this situation already, but goodbye. Thanks for taking the time to meet me. Learn from me and don’t let it happen to you or anyone you love.
My PGP key is on my MacRumors posts. Please save it if you ever want to contact me in the future. I will be deleting this account within 24 hours for my safety.
-941
MacDailyNews Take: The key is multiple sources, not a single point of information which, when it fails (and it will) is likely to be catastrophic.
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Absolutely pathetic. What did they get for this? I hope Apple makes an example of these deceptive thieves.
More like exposed. It’s not like he’s Trump, more like Assange.
“I can’t believe I did this”
BS! You knew what you were doing was wrong. At the time, you cared little about anyone but yourself and your notoriety. I assume soon, the world will know your real name and the name of your sister. Unfortunately, not in a good way.
Exactly, notice this wasn’t a one-off, this was an on-going, prolific leaker.
Your sister was silly! Silly for blabbing and falling for one of the oldest methods of rooting out a leaker! And sillier for telling you anything, and hoping you wouldn’t blab. Did she know you had been blabbing about other stuff too?
I feel for this guy and his family…. But you so…….deserve it. Consider this a life lesson.
Amazing that we are all here for the type of news 941 provided, and now he’s pathetic? This is very unfortunate but the game of being the one to provide juicy rumors is dangerous for employees. Nonetheless we are back daily eating those rumors up.
Yes, there is some hypocrisy here, your points made.
Sure I love rumors but if this guy was swiping info from his sister (which it sounds like), then he is pathetic. And if the sister was knowingly passing on proprietary info from Apple, then she is pathetic to.
Not all rumors are based on stolen info though. Sometimes Apple leaves clues in software updates. Sometimes Apple passes on specs to 3rd party peripheral makers. Sometimes people leave their top-secret phone in bars.
He takes the line of “poor, poor, pitiful me” as if HE is some sort of a victim. Tough luck Judas, you kept your con going for too long and got caught…. cry me a river.
I want to feel bad for his sister, but if she was revealing confidential info to her sibling, then this is on her.
I have friends who work on secret projects both major (the space program) and minor (movie special effects). When I ask about what they’re working on, they smile and say they’ll tell me . . . after the fact. I respect the fact they they respect the limitations of their jobs.
As much as I want to read the latest Apple gossip — like when will the 15″ MacBook Air be out?? — I don’t want anyone to risk their livelihood to tell me.