The Apple Developer website went down on Thursday and the rumors began to swirl. Now, we know for sure — they wuz hacked and the site won’t be back until the company rebuilds, which some people speculate could take weeks.
Apple Developer Website Update
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.
That is more than serious and, although we all might have felt a little better if Apple had spoken earlier, it’s good that the company is taking a comprehensive approach to this obviously fundamental failure of the Apple Developer Website…
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