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Apple had revealed last week that its Developer Center had faced a security breach on Thursday. Following this attack, which could have possibly compromised data of some developers, the Cupertino company took the website offline to fix the breach. A Turkish security researcher has now claimed that he was possibly the “intruder” identified by Apple during the breach.
Even while Apple itself refrained from taking names and making comments about the breach, the UK-based security researcher Ibrahim Balic has claimed responsibility for the attack. Balic on his part has admitted that he did not hack the system with malicious intentions.
In a comment on a TechCrunch article regarding the attack, Balic wrote that he found 13 bugs which he reported to Apple. He said that he took user details of 73 people, all Apple employees, to prove his point about the bugs. While it cannot be proved that Balic indeed was the hacker thanks to whom Apple shut its Developer website down for nearly four days, his story does seem credible.
Apple is keeping mum on the details of the breach
Balic claims that four hours after he submitted his final report, Apple took the website down. The researcher, who is on Facebook’s Whitehat list, claims that he proceeded to email Apple about the matter but received no comment. In the comment, Balic admits that the purpose of his research was not to hurt people and that he did not try to publish or share the data with anyone else. “My aim was to report bugs and collect the datas (sic) 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,” he wrote, sounding concerned that he will probably end up getting blacklisted by Apple. He even posted a video response to the situation but then pulled it off the website.
The website is up and running since the beginning of the week. Our guess is that Apple has been successful in patching up the holes in its system.
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