Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site
A DEVELOPER, who claims to have hacked Apple's developer site, says he did it because the company failed to fix security flaws.
A TURKISH developer living in London claims to be the person behind the hack on Apple's developer site last week and claims to have the personal information of more than 100,000 registered users.
Ibrahim Balic posted a comment and a YouTube video on technology website TechCrunch yesterday explaining the details of his hack.
(The video has since been set to private)
The security researcher claims he hacked the site after Apple failed to do anything about 13 bugs which had been reported to the company.
"One of those bugs have provided me access to users details etc. I immediately reported this to Apple. I have taken 73 users details (all apple inc workers only) and prove them as an example," Balic wrote in TechCrunch's comment section.
"My aim was to report bugs and collect the datas for the porpoise (sic) 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.
"I do not want my name to be in blacklist, please search on this situation. I'm keeping all the evidences, emails and images also I have the records of bugs that I made through Apple bug-report."
Apple confirmed that its Developer Centre was hacked and the site was shut down for a week while it was investigated. The site was put back online yesterday.
However, it has not commented on the claims from Balic, though news.com.au has reached out to Apple for a response.
Meanwhile developer Marco Arment - the man behind the Instapaper app - tweeted that the timing and details of the hack "lined up very well with Apple's story so far".
Ibrahim Balic's timing and data collected line up very well with Apple's story so far.
— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) July 22, 2013