"Last Thursday (18 July), an intruder attempted to secure personal information from the website regarding our registered developers," Apple said in a statement.
Although sensitive information was encrypted, the company says it has not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers' names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed.
The information technology company said in a statement titled "We'll be back soon" that they made the hack attack known in the spirit of transparency.
Company officials "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," Apple said, apologising and adding that they "expect to have the developer website up again soon."
Source: AFP via I-Net Bridge
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