Bangalore: Apple developers around the word were aghast since the website- developer.apple.com- shutdown on Thursday last week. At first the users too it has a site crash, but today Apple said that it was because of hacking. It also said that the information about some of its 275,000 registered third-party developers who use it may have been stolen, reports The Guardian.

“Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website,” Apple posted on its website. The Cupertino based company also added that “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.”

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