Ibrahim Balic has confessed to being the intruder identified by Apple in a security breech on its developer site but claims he had no malicious intent.
Apple took down its developer's site Sunday when it reportred an intruder had tried to gain access to developer data last week. The general developer site is accessible as always but the actual Developer Center sites for iOS and OS X are still offline.
In a lengthy comment to a TechCrunch story posted on Sunday, Balic identified himself as a security researcher who consults for different firms. He apparently has started doing research on Apple and his investigation turned up 13 bugs on the Developer site, which he immediately reported to Apple and did not try and exploit.
However, one of the bugs apparently provided him with access to user data. Four hours after reporting the bug, he said the Developer Center shut down. Balic has since tried to contact Apple but, according to CNET, has not heard back from the company.
Balic, in his comment, stressed that he was not there to try and hurt people and did not try to publish or share user data with anyone else.
"I'm not feeling very happy with what I read and a bit irritated, as I did not done this research to harm or damage. I didn't attempt to publish or have not shared this situation with anybody else. My aim was to report bugs and collect the datas for the porpoise of seeing how deep I can go within this scope. I have over 100.000+ users details and Apple is informed about this. I didn't attempt to get the datas first and report then, instead I have reported first," Balic wrote in his comment. "I do not want my name to be in blacklist, please search on this situation. I'm keeping all the evidences, emails and images also I have the records of bugs that I made through Apple bug-report."
