AppleInsider Staff
Apple sent out emails to developers early Saturday saying all Developer Center services are back online, and that the company is extending a month membership to all teams to make up for the prolonged downtime.
The short update to developers, which apologizes for the service outage that lasted just over three weeks, comes five days after Apple announced plans to have the portal at full capacity by the end of this week.
A quick check of the system status webpage dedicated to the Dev Center confirms all functions are online.
Apple's Dev Center was taken offline on Jul. 18, though Apple waited one day before acknowledging the issue. It was later learned that "an intruder" compromised the website. All sensitive data was said to be encrypted.
Eight days later, Apple brought portions of the system back online and continued to roll out services until all functionality was restored on Saturday.
Apple has yet to reveal the identity of those responsible for the self-imposed downtime, but one researcher claimed responsibility shortly after the outage began in July.
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Actually, despite the email, not all service are in fact up. It is currently not possible to transfer apps between developers.
Well they haven't quite restored everything. I renewed my membership on July 17th and the site still claims I'm about to expire (despite a link to the online store confirming otherwise).
Since I can't imagine that they had to "hand enter" my renewal once the confirmation was generated, I'm assuming this means they incurred a data loss on the membership database. :/
[quote name="tikiman" url="/t/158987/apple-restores-all-developer-center-services-after-3-week-downtime#post_2377688"]Well they haven't quite restored everything. I renewed my membership on July 17th and the site still claims I'm about to expire (despite a link to the online store confirming otherwise). Since I can't imagine that they had to "hand enter" my renewal once the confirmation was generated, I'm assuming this means they incurred a data loss on the membership database. :/ [/quote] I am pretty confident it will be all sorted out just fine, no worries.
Yeah, except the data person in me asks "Why is the data missing? Did someone compromise the data? Did someone corrupt the data? Was the data not backed up? Do they even know there's a data loss? What else might be missing?" And then I start to think about allllll the possibilities. :D
I still can't log in to my account and developer support has done nothing for me except give me the run around. This is the worst Apple experience I've ever had. My account is utterly locked and they've just put me off telling my case is escalated. Meanwhile, all Dev service are back, and I still can't log in at all.