Apple experienced a major security breach over the weekend, one which has the company promising to overhaul their Dev Center. A “hacker” was able to successfully demonstrate an exploit that provided access to the names and user IDs of registered developers, except the man claiming responsibility insists he only did it to call Apple’s attention to the issue.
In fact, so-called security research Ibrahim Balic says he noted the issue to Apple mere hours before his hack forced the company to send their developer center offline. He provided a video backing up his claims. At the very least, it appears his intentions were not malicious and user data is likely safe.
Apple issued the following statement on the matter:
“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.”
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