>Assuming the tipster is not under any NDA, is there anything Apple could take them to court for? In some jurisdictions (including mine, but I do not know Cali

>Assuming the tipster is not under any NDA, is there anything Apple could take them to court for? In some jurisdictions (including mine, but I do not know California law) there is the civil tort of Tortious Interference, where Parties A & B have a contract, and Party C improperly pushes/induces B to break their contract with A. A could then have a claim against C. What counts is specific, some sort of financial carrot/stick commonly. The former is obvious, for the latter a classic/textbook example would be if you have a contract to sell 500 foobars to A. Meanwhile C is planning to start selling foobars too, and also has lots of existing business with A that is very valuable to A. So C threatens A, saying they'll stop doing business with them unless they breach their contract with you. There is no explicit bribing or payment there, merely denial of future payment, but that could still be a case for tortious interference. But it's very possible that there's nothing here actionable (or the tort may not be there in CA), and this is just someone using a very generous "might take legal action". If this goes to court Apple would do discovery and check I assume, but it'd be fact dependent. Edit: sibling comments mention there is also some specific CA law regarding trade secrets.