Both issues raised serious privacy concerns for users who relied on these tools to capture and share information online. This vulnerability was similar to another one found in Google Pixel phones’ screenshot tool, which was dubbed “ Acropalypse” by some media outlets. For example, someone could still retrieve that information from your file if you took a screenshot of your bank account and cropped out your balance or account number before sharing it online. ![]() This means anyone who got access to your screenshots could recover the cropped parts using some tools or scripts and see what you didn’t want them to see. This was discovered by security researchers who found out that the cropped parts of images were not actually deleted from the files, but rather hidden in some extra data after the “PNG IEND chunk”. The major flaw discovered some days ago could expose sensitive data that you cropped out of your screenshots. The Snipping Tool has been around since Windows Vista and has been updated for Windows 11 with a new design and features. The update is available for Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel as version 11.2302.20.0 and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store or sideloaded from other sources (at your own risk). The recent versions of Microsoft’s Snipping Tool for Windows 11 and Snip & Sketch for Windows 10 were found keeping data from cropped and saved screenshots in the file, possibly leading to unwanted sharing of information. ![]() ![]() Microsoft has acted quickly and released an update for the Windows Snipping Tool that fixes a vulnerability Windows Snipping Tool Exploit Exposes Data in Cropped Images – WinBuzzer.
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