Apple Developer Center Hacked, Some Developer Info May Have Been Accessed

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Posted July 21, 2013 at 10:53pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple has announced that its developer center was hacked. Although sensitive personal information was encrypted, some developer info may have been accessed.

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.

As of now the Apple Dev Center is still down.

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Apple Developer Center Hacked, Some Developer Info May Have Been Accessed

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purplemaize - July 23, 2013 at 10:06am

I got my letter... Now I'll just make a few changes on my idea... and look and put in a New Guideline.

gamerscul9870 - July 22, 2013 at 10:42pm

I agree too, you probably want ifake off this Site, can you be more specific for which ifake you're referring to b/c I've seen 2 ifakes here, so you didn't say which one it is.

gamerscul9870 - July 22, 2013 at 3:12pm

I'd sue this guy, if he was going to tell apple about his little incident and warn them about security, why would he access some of apples info and delete their data?

Besart - July 22, 2013 at 2:54pm

Its Balic, don't panic about this. He just did a research trying to help apple. If apple would be smart and consider his research as a good will action, I hope he gets rewarded. Cheers

6italia0 - July 22, 2013 at 7:02am

So this is why I couldn't set a genius bar appointment for my cinema display today? Um, OK then lol

Zaur Bilalov - July 22, 2013 at 4:54am

dont worry. it is a turkish guy, Ibrahim Balic... 9to5mac.com...

gamerscul9870 - July 22, 2013 at 3:12am

Slamdroid wouldn't be that easy for them to hack into apples hq. Their company doesn't have that many people using it anyway, since apple can still make their current products better, this means they're smart enough to track down who did this.

BA - July 22, 2013 at 1:23am

Who was it. ? Who took credit for this hack?

iFake - July 22, 2013 at 12:11am

Hi, I have nothing intelligent to say, but I like typing so I'm posting this anyway. Boy, I sure hope that someone will make fun of this post, so that I can get into a long argument about exactly how much of a loser I am!!!!

Wolverinemarky - July 21, 2013 at 11:54pm

Wow I'm actually surprised no one tried it before now or did it before. Knowing apple they will make their security super strong

unlockmyidevice - July 21, 2013 at 11:09pm

Joking btw

Yeah,and I got a whole lot of info,let me tell you!!lol

Jack Black - July 21, 2013 at 11:08pm

I guess apple software is not immune to exploits after all :)

gamerscul9870 - July 22, 2013 at 3:17am

Lamedroid is immune to lag for the eternity.

Zaur Bilalov - July 21, 2013 at 11:05pm

I got this email too. It sucks...