Apple’s Developers Site Hacked, Some Info May Been Exposed

From a few days, we reported to you that Apple’s developers website has been down for a few days, Apple didn’t give us any good information for the reason behind shutting down the site for more than 48 hours.. At first Apple said only: “maintenance was taking longer than expected”. But today it broke the silence, announcing it has been hacked..

Here’s the email Apple has been sending out to developers this afternoon (via AllThingsD):

“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.”

Don’t panic ! You and your info/apps are safe, that’s what Apple said and confirmed..Additionally, it says the attackers did not have access to app code or servers with app data.