The Apple Developer site, or iOS Dev Center, which supports its iOS and OS X beta downloads, was placed on hold for a few days which started on July 18. A security breach has been the culprit as previously admitted by the company. But today, the big company proclaimed that everything is back to normal and online, especially its developer program services. And for what seems to be a peace offering to the developers affected, Apple is offering a one-month extension on the memberships that they usually offer for a year.
The technology giant, in its usual predisposition, kept mum some time after the suspension of the developer program services but had consistently released announcements acknowledging and owning the outage because “an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website.” Fortunately, no “sensitive personal information” was acquired. However, the intruder’s possible acquisition of the developers’ personal information – like names, e-mail addresses and postal addresses – couldn’t be ruled out by Apple.
Last month, as Techcrunch reported, Ibrahim Balic, a 25-year old Turkish security researcher had managed to post a security bug in the developer center and just the same as this one, it has never been clear what or how exactly it happened.
Subsequent to the complete shutdown and power off of services, services were brought back online by Apple batch by batch. It started with profiles, certificates and identifiers, in addition to its libraries, developer forums, and bug reporter. Then software downloads, together with iOS 7, Xcode 5 betas and OS X mavericks followed. Now, it has brought back access to enrollment, program renewals and Xcode Automatic Configurion.
