Apple has announced that their portal for developers has been hacked and that is why it was not possible to reach since last Thursday when the attack occurred. Personal information about the developer may have been accessed by the hacker.
Last Thursday was Apple’s developer portal down and no reasons were given for why it was no longer possible to reach. The portal is used by developers to manage their developer accounts and its apps from Apple. It also provides important documentation on Apple’s programming APIs and discussion forum for developers.
on Twitter noticed the growing frustration among developers as the portal continued to be down. The only message that Apple posted was that it was down for maintenance. Some developers were worried that they would not be able to renew their developer accounts, thus risking their apps were removed from the App Store. After another time Apple updated the portal message with the assurance that all memberships expiring during this period will automatically be extended.
portal continued to be down all weekend and today, Apple announced that it had been hacked. On the portal page is in writing, including:
“Last Thursday, an intruder tried to get over the personal information of our registered developers from our site for developers. Sensitive information was encrypted and can not be accessed but we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, addresses and / or email addresses is reached. To ensure transparency, spirit we wish to inform you of the problem., we shut down the site immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then. “
The American Macworld, Apple announced that no information about Apple’s customers had been brought about. The attacker could also not reach program for apps or servers where information about the apps saved.
Security researcher Ibrahim Balic claims to have reported a security hole in Apple’s developer portal just hours before it went down last Thursday, writing 9to5mac who have been in contact with Balic. He claims to have been the first and last names of developers, e-mail addresses of Apple IDs and user IDs Balic has released a video on Youtube about the security hole, and stresses that he is not a hacker and not use it for any purpose or caused any damage to Apple’s system.
It is unclear when developing the portal will be accessible again. In Apple’s message says that they are doing a complete review of the safety and builds on the developer database from scratch, and that they expect to make the portal work “soon”.
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