Yesterday, Apple confirmed that someone attacked on Apple Developer website and tried access sensitive information. Apple also took website down for maintenance. But it was not confirmed that who was behind the attack and what information was stolen. But we think it was not an attack. Apple was reported about the vulnerability with sample data.
Few hours after the developer website went down, a Turkish security researcher has taken the responsibility of those attacks. But he confirmed that he didn’t attack on the website. He commented on a post on Techcrunch explaining what happened. He said that he found 13 bugs in Apple website and reported it to company. To explain everything, he also took some screenshots. Those bugs allowed him to access millions of users’ information. He also sent few sampled to Apple. After that, Apple tool website down and posted that hacking message on website.
“My aim was to report bugs and collect the datas for the porpoise 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,” Ibrahim confirmed.
“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,” He added.
See few tweets by Ibrahim.
Apple!! This is definitely not an hack attack !!!!!!!!!!!! I am not an hacker, I do security research :@ http://t.co/hkX8mwXTgj @mikebutcher
— ibrahim BALİÇ (@ibrahimbalic) July 22, 2013
