Apple Developer Center hacked
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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slapshot101Posted:
It was really bad because this happened right after the iOS 7 beta came out and everyone was trying to get UDID registration, which caused much confusion because they completely took down the developer center to fix this.
KatsumiPosted:
Purity Wow lol you don't see apple getting hacked every day
It's pretty rare for a large company like apple to get hacked, but when they do it's usually pretty serious
KatsumiPosted:
Ranzee I don't understand why people would hack Apple?
They likely wanted to access personal and financial information.
TaigaAisakaPosted:
RaheemSterling_31 I don't understand why people would hack Apple?
The reason why people hack others. Some do it for "fun", some do it because they're mad at that person or company and some do it just to do it.
DMNDSPosted:
RaheemSterling_31 I don't understand why people would hack Apple?
They do it everyday, This is just a big one. Theres not much to steal from apple either.
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