#apple developer accounts briefly showed #russia addresses due to an #apple bug

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For a couple of hours today, Apple’s developer portal was down as scattered complaints arose online that some developers’ home addresses had been changed to an address in Russia, prompting speculation that there might have been some sort of breach. The issue, which has since been resolved and according to Apple was not a security breach, was first reported by MacRumors.

A developer named David Negron, who identifies himself on Twitter as the founder of Productiontrax.com, called attention to the glitch when he tweeted that “all developer account addresses” were being shown as an address in Russia. (We’ve tried to contact Negron, to get a sense of why he wrote that “all” accounts are showing an address in Russia, but haven’t heard back.)…

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