Apple Brings Final Developer Services Back Online

Apple announced that all of its developer program services are now back online. Apple’s portal for developers, which also hosts its iOS and OS X beta downloads, went down on July 18th and a few days after, the company acknowledged that there had been a security breach. To make up for the prolonged outage of some of the services, Apple will extend all memberships, which are usually for a year, by one month.

In typical Apple fashion, the company remained quiet for a while after it took the Developer Center down, but then quickly released a statement admitting that it had taken the site down because “an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website.” No “sensitive personal information” was accessed, Apple said at the time, but it couldn’t rule out that the intruders had gained access to developers’ names and mailing and email addresses.