{"id":82689,"date":"2013-07-22T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T06:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=82689"},"modified":"2013-07-22T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:09:18","slug":"apple-software-developers-website-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/82689-apple-software-developers-website-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple software developers website hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer and software giant <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-Inc\">Apple<\/a> said Sunday that it took its software developers website offline after it was hacked, warning that personal information about them may have been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website,&#8221; Apple said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Although sensitive information was encrypted, &#8220;we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers&#8217; names, mailing addresses, and\/or email addresses may have been accessed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The information technology giant said in a statement titled &#8220;We&#8217;ll be back soon&#8221; that they made the hack attack known &#8220;in the spirit of transparency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Company officials &#8220;took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we&#8217;re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database,&#8221; Apple said, apologizing and adding that they &#8220;expect to have the developer website up again soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Apple and security articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/82329-north-korea-vs-south-korea-cyber-battle-heats-up.html\">North Korea vs South Korea cyber-battle heats up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/82367-eu-calls-for-us-answers-on-spying.html\">EU calls for answers on US spying<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/82337-snowden-to-decide-on-russia-asylum-soon.html\">Snowden to decide on Russia asylum soon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/82209-data-protection-privacy-rules-must-react-to-us-surveillance-german-chancellor.html\">Data protection, privacy rules must react to US surveillance: German chancellor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer and software giant Apple said Sunday that it took its software developers website offline after it was hacked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":76168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,605],"class_list":["post-82689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82691,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82689\/revisions\/82691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}