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.