Apple Developer Website Hacked

Apple’s Developer Center website has been hacked by unknown intruders last Thursday resulting in some significant downtime along the way throughout the past week as a precaution.

According to Telegraph, around 275,000 logins are believed to have been affected by the breach, the first known against Apple’s web services.

Apple claims sensitive information had been encrypted and could not be accessed, but that the company “could not rule out the possibility” that developer names, mailing addresses and email addresses may have been accessed. An Apple spokesman said no apps or customer information had been compromised.

In an email to developers sent last night, Apple said, ” it was completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database to avoid further breaches”.

“We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.”, spokesman added.

Turkish security researcher Ibrahim Balic claims that he was behind the “hack”, but insisted that his intention was to test of Apple’s security systems.

Balic states he reported the bugs he uncovered to Apple, and that he will delete all of the data he accessed.

The App Store and iTunes services are unaffected by the attack, and have continued to trade as normal.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk