The company which claims it has the best computer
security in the world, Apple has been handing out top secret passwords to
anyone who asks nicely.
Marko Karppinen tried to log in to Apple
Developer Connection to find out that my password had been changed and the
email associated with my account was now a yahoo.com address that wasn't
mine. Since the "security question" was still the same, so he reset the
password and email address back.
Apparently all the hackers did was send an
email asking for the password to be sent to their 'new' email. Apple,
which is known to take journalists to court to protect its own secrecy, just
handed the account over. The hacker got Karppinen's, personal details, email,
iDisk files, everything he had synchronized to .Mac, credit card details
as stored in my Apple Store profile and his iTunes Music Store
Account.
Apparently the Apple Developer Connection's European
support organization called me, apologised for the mess, and assured me that
they don't
normally operate this way. So that is all right
then.
Marko's Blog can be found
here.