Earlier this month, 404 Media broke a fascinating, complex, and concerning story: The FBI had successfully retrieved incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, despite the fact that those ...

Article updated with statement from Signal thanking Apple for addressing the vulnerability. Apple has released out-of-band security updates for iPhone and iPad devices to fix a Notification Services ...

Recently, the FBI recovered old Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone, despite the messages and the app having been deleted. Now, Apple has fixed the loophole that allowed it to happen. Signal is a ...

The comments followed recent reports that law enforcement officials retrieved deleted Signal messages through device push notification logs. Pavel Durov, co-founder of the Telegram messaging ...

A new report has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to recover deleted messages from an iPhone even after the Signal app had been removed. Whenever a situation like this ...

FBI used the flaw to extract readable previews of Signal messages from an iPhone's notification database even after the app was deleted. Tech giant Apple has fixed a security flaw that had allowed the ...

Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that the FBI obtained deleted Signal messages saved inside an iPhone’s notification database. It looks like the iOS 26.4.2 security update addresses this, as ...

Why it matters: Encrypted chat services such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp advertise themselves as the most secure, private digital communication methods. However, no matter how strong an app's ...