Apple’s ’hidden’ job ad found online – BBC News
An advert for an engineer at Apple has been found hidden in the tech giant’s website.The text begins: ”Hey there! You found us”, and says the firm is looking for ”a talented engineer to develop a critical infrastructure component”.It has since been either removed or moved elsewhere.Cyber-security reporter Zack Whittaker discovered it by chance while analysing some data being sent from iPhone apps – but he is not applying for the job.”As part of the stream of traffic I could see, it was connecting to this one URL – and there it was,” he said.The page was listed under the web address ”us-east-1.blobstore.apple.com” – whoch now contains an error message.”Blobstore” is the name of a series of servers that belong to Apple.Apple has been contacted by the BBC.
