Summary: Apple revealed that its Developer Center
website was breached by unknown hackers and was taken offline last Thursday as
a precaution.
Apple on Sunday addressed a
multi-day outage afflicting its developer site, acknowledging that its systems
were hacked.
In an email to developers,
Apple wrote:
“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.”
Apple did confirm to Macworld
that the website that was breached was not associated with any customer
information; all customer information is securely encrypted, a company
spokesperson said. The attacker also did not have access to app code, or the
servers where app information is stored, Apple told Macworld. The company
declined to comment on whether legal authorities were involved in its
investigation of the hack.
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