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Monday, December 15, 2014
Apple Charts Recovery From Dev Center Hack on New System Status Page
Apple's Developer Center outage continues with no end in sight, following a hack last week that forced the company to take it offline. In a message to developers Wednesday, Apple said it continues to work "around the clock" to bring its developer systems back online, and while it didn't say when it expects that to happen, the company has created a status page charting its progress and dev services availability.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Apple's Developer Center Is Back After Over A Week Offline
Apple's Developer Center is finally back online, after taking a break for over a week. The developer site went down after a hacking attempt mid-week last week, and stayed down without any kind of return for multiple days. The hack was reportedly one that only affected developer accounts, after an intruder attempted to secure personal information.
Apple said at the time that it was possible personal information including developer names, mailing addresses and email addresses could have been accessed, but no credit card data was leaked. Apple offered no time-table for return at the time, but did create a system for tracking the status of the site after a week of downtime, and started bringing things back online slowly.
A researcher reported that he'd possibly prompted the down time after probing the dev center and reporting bugs regarding vulnerabilities in it and the iAd Workbench site, but we've reached out to Apple for more specific information about the return and what steps led to it, and will update with a response if we receive one.
Update: Here's the full text of the email sent to developers by Apple about the outage.
We appreciate your patience as we work to bring our developers services back online. Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, software downloads, and other developer services are now available. If you would like to know the availability of a particular system, visit our status page.
If your program membership expired or is set to expire during this downtime, it will be extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please contact us.
Thank you for bearing with us while we bring these important systems back online. We will continue to update you on our progress.