Became known cause malfunction Site Developer Center, designed for developers of software for operating systems Apple. As a recognized company, the site was hacked attacker.
happened on Thursday last week. It was on Thursday access to the site was closed with a message that it carried out the technical work. In a message sent out on Sunday to all registered developers, the company does not rule out that the “intruder” gained access to their names, home addresses and email addresses. This data is not encrypted, acknowledged at Apple, in contrast to other “sensitive personal information”.
The company said it will now have to completely rework the system for developers to rebuild the database and update the server software. While these works are completed, access to the site will be closed. An Apple representative said in an interview with All Things Digital, that these regular Apple users were not addressed burglary. Website Developer Center has nothing to do with these data, in addition, they are securely encrypted.
Developer Center provides developers with early access to the developed by Apple UE for example, the beta versions of iOS 7 or OS X Mavericks. In addition, developers can use it to organize the distribution of beta versions of their own programs. Finally, the site hosted popular among developers private forums where they discuss work on the software, and other issues.
responsibility for what happened later took over the British Turkish origin Ibrahim Balic. However, he argues that just researched vulnerabilities in Apple systems and to find as many as 13 “holes” in the Developer Center, notified the company. Balic Apple posted a list of employees of the company, these accounts which he received. In addition, the researcher admitted he did get access to the names and addresses of about 100,000 registered developers. It happened on Thursday, and that’s when the company closed the site.
Source: All Things Digital, The Next Web
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