Apple says its Developer site has been
hacked and that some information about its 275,000 registered third-party
developers who use it may have been stolen.
The portal at developer.apple.com had not
been reachable since Thursday, raising speculation among developers first that
it had suffered a disastrous database crash, and then that it had been hacked.
A Turkish security researcher, Ibrahim
Balic, claims that he was behind the "hack" but insisted that his
intention was to demonstrate that Apple's system was leaking user information.
Apple's developer website has been
unreachable for the best part of four days, with the company revealing just
today the cause of the extended downtime.
Since Apple discovered the issue last Thursday,
the company immediately shut down their website and began work "around the
clock". Additionally, company spokesperson Tom Neumayr told All Things that
"the website that was breached is not associated with any customer
information".
The developer site forms a very important
part of Apple's relations with app developers, as it allows access to various
copies of development kits.
A number of developers
registered with the site have been reporting numerous password reset emails
appearing in their inboxes, asking them to head to the Apple developer portal
to change their password.
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