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 the same address in Russia, prompting speculation that there might have been some sort of security breach. The unidentified issue, which appears to have since been resolved.

A developer named David Negron, who identifies himself 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.

Another developer, named Kais Karim, also tweeted that he had checked four different Apple developer accounts and all showed the same address: “bul. Novatorov, Saint-Petesburg, Leningrad, 198216, Russian Federation.” Update: Interestingly, both Negron and Karim work for Quicken Loans in Detroit, Michigan, according to their online profiles; and Karim told The Verge that he noticed the erroneous Russian address was appearing in both personal and professional accounts.

It’s still unclear whether this is some sort of internal error, or a hack from an outside force. The developer site was also down briefly for “maintenance,” but it’s now back up and running, which would suggest that it was some sort of quick fix.

But the address above also has a spelling error in it — “Saint-Petesburg” — which could indicate sloppiness on the part of a bad actor rather than a technical glitch that caused a legitimate address to propagate elsewhere.

Source: theverge