A Turkish security researcher, Ibrahim Balic, issued a sceencast video on YouTube earlier today -- which was initially public, but was yanked from public viewing this afternoon -- that appeared to show he successfully hacked into Apple's
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Screen shot from YouTube video claiming credit for Apple developer site hack. The user's name is shown in the clear in the original.
Balic told Britain's The Guardian that his: "Intention was not attacking. In total I found 13 bugs and reported [them] directly one by one to Apple straight away. Just after my reporting [the] dev center got closed. I have not heard anything from them, and they announced that they got attacked."
One cause of initial comments on YouTube following the appearance of the video was the inclusion in the video of actual usernames and email addresses. One commenter, for example, felt that "a real Web security expert would never expose personal info on YouTube!"
In a weekend letter to account holders at the site, Apple said it is "completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database."
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