Apple has paid millions to settle a lawsuit with a woman in the US,?who had explicit personal photos and videos leaked from her iPhone after she sent it in for repair.
As per a report in The Telegraph, the workers put multiple?photos of the 21-year-old ¡°in various stages of undress¡± and the sex footage on her Facebook account in 2016.?
The iPhone was reportedly being repaired at Pegatron's California facility when the two technicians uploaded sexually explicit photos and a video of the Oregon college student.
The images were reportedly posted so it looked as if she shared them ¨C and she only took them down after friends tipped her off that they had been posted online.
It was reported that the full amount of the settlement wasn¡¯t disclosed, but it was a ¡°multimillion-dollar¡± amount.?
"Court documents say the files were uploaded in a way that suggested Doe had posted them herself, and her attorney asked Apple for $5 million in compensation for the resulting emotional distress," The Telegraph report said.
According to court documents, Apple performed an "exhaustive investigation" of the facility and the two employees responsible for the incident were fired.
"We take the privacy and security of our customers' data extremely seriously and have a number of protocols in place to ensure data is protected throughout the repair process," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement.
"When we learned of this egregious violation of our policies at one of our vendors in 2016, we took immediate action and have since continued to strengthen our vendor protocols," the company spokesperson was quoted as saying.?
Confidentiality agreements in the case prevented both parties from discussing the settlement, but its existence was made public in court papers from a separate lawsuit.??
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