Today news got released that an Anonymous hacker had breached into
the Apple developer website. The hacker claims to have had access to
over 100 000 user accounts.
The White hat hacker
He does not wants to be called an hacker as he did this for security reasons.
The White hat hacker
He does not wants to be called an hacker as he did this for security reasons.
Apple’s developer website, which has experienced some significant downtime this past week, has been hacked.
Apple
released the information just a few moments ago in an email to
registered developers, saying that sensitive emails, names, and physical
addresses could have been compromised, and that it took the website
down on Thursday to prevent any further damage:
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.
The last time Apple’s developer website went down it was due to a rush on the company’s iOS 7 beta release in early June. This week’s outage, however, was longer-lived — for much of a day — and for a much more damaging reason.
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