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Intel Chip flaw: Every Apple devices vulnerable to hacking

Apple has confirmed that it's every iPhone, iPad, Mac device, and Apple TV is vulnerable to the major Intel bug that could allow them to be hacked.

Apple uses Intel's chips in almost all of its devices, due to this design flaws billions of people's personal data to cyber criminals are at risk of being exposed.

Security researchers have found a devastating Meltdown and Spectre bugs.

In a statement released, Apple said: "All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time.

"Since exploiting many of these issues requires a malicious app to be loaded on your Mac or iOS device, we recommend downloading software only from trusted sources such as the App Store.

"We continue to develop and test further mitigations for these issues and will release them in upcoming updates of iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS."

However, the exact nature of the design flaw is still not clear, so it is impossible to measure its impact and how to abet the problem.

The firm has notified all its customers to only download software from its platforms only, App Store.

Apple has assured that there have been no instances of hackers taking advantage of the flaw to date.

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