[jordanthoms]

Alternately, inside the reality distortion field developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses is not sensitive personal information.

[Turing_Machine]

Anyone who has my name can find my email address with a simple Google search. My mailing address is on all kinds of public records.

[robryan]

"Give me a list of all registered developers email addresses" is a little harder though.

[ptwiggens]

What use is the list without passwords?

[bdcravens]

Pretty sure it'd be easy to sell that list for several thousand dollars, over and over.

[kalleboo]

Spear phishing

[robryan]

Spamming them with something that may interest iOS developers.

[ojbyrne]

If by "reality distortion field," you mean the legal community, then yes. Having been through something similar recently, the lawyers will likely be making sure everyone involved understands the concept of PII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...

[ptwiggens]

How are names, mailing addresses, and email addresses sensitive personal information?

I would imagine that for most of the people signed up, it wouldn't be that hard to track down their name and email just from knowing the name of their app.

[CoryG89]

Name and e-mail, I'm kinda with you. Everyone who uses my app knowing my current mailing address I look at a little bit different.

[VeryVito]

One of the understood requirements of publishing an app on the App Store is that developers must provide some means for customers to contact them directly (support page, email address, etc). If you're selling apps on the app store, people can already peddle their wares to your email account.

So yeah, developer's names, addresses and emails are not secrets by any means. Why would anyone buy an app from someone they had no means of identifying?

[gurkendoktor]

iOS developers != App Store vendors. There are plenty of developers who work on other people's apps for a living.