Maybe some of you already notices that the developer section on Apple’s website has been offline for a while for “maintenance”. However in an email to developers, Apple revealed that its Developer Center website was breached by unknown hackers and was taken offline last Thursday as a precaution. Apple notes that sensitive personal information was “encrypted and cannot be accessed” but that Apple’s engineers “could not rule out the possibility” that developer names, mailing addresses and email addresses may have been accessed. » Apple Developer Website Hacked: Developer Names & Addresses May Have Been Taken

A view days ago we wrote about a Russian hacker that released a tool for bypassing Apple’s In App Purchase mechanism, which made it possible to obtaining in-app purchases from iOS apps for free. Now TheNextWeb reported that Apple is fighting back and began blocking the IP address of the server used by Russian hacker Alexey V. Borodin to authenticate purchases. » Apple Fighting Back Against In App Purchase Hack

9to5mac noted that a Russian developer has published a method of obtaining in-app purchases from iOS apps for free. “First noticed by Russian blog i-ekb.ru, the “in-app proxy”method does not require a jailbreak, can be completed by novices in three steps using just an iOS device, and allows users to install in-app content for free.” The Russian developer ZonD80 uploaded a video “check above” on YouTube where you can see a demonstration of the hack. » Russian Hacker Released Tool for Bypassing Apple’s In App Purchase Mechanism