Apple Developer Center hacked

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Apple has announced its Developer Center website has been subject to a hacking attempt, and that it has "not been able to rule out the possibility" that developers' personal details have been accessed.

In a statement emailed to all developers and posted on the Developer Center website, Apple explained what had happened and informed that the site is now down for the foreseeable future while it overhauls its security.

"Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website," the statement reads.

"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."

In 2011, Apple was hacked by online hacktivists Anonymous but while the details of 27 usernames and passwords were leaked, no other customer data was exposed.

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VibeEditzPosted:

Parecy
Woobie
DubleJayJ And Apple falls down now too. Who's next? Microsoft? Let's hope.


They didn't fall, they slipped.
Well said Woobie.


Why would you want Microsoft to be hacked?

If you owned a multi-billion dollar company, and someone said they wish you were hacked, you would laugh in their face because you have billions. I'm sure if Microsoft saw your comment, they would laugh in your face.

GTFO fanboy.

RuinsPosted:

cmpunk- how can they let it happen again :(


Apple develop amazing products, someone is clearly jealous of their success

TomorrowLandPosted:

Woobie
DubleJayJ And Apple falls down now too. Who's next? Microsoft? Let's hope.


They didn't fall, they slipped.
Well said Woobie.

MusketPosted:

how can they let it happen again :(

VEVOPosted:

-Wub What would be the point of leaking info about Apple devs.


To make Apple seem weak.

WubsPosted:

What would be the point of leaking info about Apple devs.

I-DA-KINGPosted:

How many developers do they have, I could see this being important if they have 10k+ developers if they only have like 1k then i don't see how this is very important

WeaksaucePosted:

-CP
Wagering It's a good day to not be a developer. ;)


Why would that be? Nothing confidential was stolen; so you're an idiot.


Amen

-CPPosted:

Wagering It's a good day to not be a developer. ;)


Why would that be? Nothing confidential was stolen; so you're an idiot.

WageringPosted:

It's a good day to not be a developer. ;)