Apple dev portal shutdown after hack attempt

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Got an email this morning from Apple apologising for their dev portal being unavailable since an attempt in Thursday to hack into it.

They say no secure data was taken, but some basic account data accessed, including email addresses.

I don't think this affects anyone with only an iTunes account. Only those signed up on developers portal.

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We 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. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.
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Almost a week and it's still down.

Hoping its back up soon!
 
We plan to roll out our updated systems, starting with Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, Apple Developer Forums, Bug Reporter, pre-release developer libraries, and videos first. Next, we will restore software downloads, so that the latest betas of iOS 7, Xcode 5, and OS X Mavericks will once again be available to program members. We’ll then bring the remaining systems online. To keep you up to date on our progress, we’ve created a status page to display the availability of our systems.
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Recovery status page
https://developer.apple.com/support/system-status/
 
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