Hello,
Apple just terminated my Developer account and revoked my certificate.
The email mentioned : "Apple has good reason to believe, or has reasonable suspicions, that your Application contains malware or malicious, suspicious or harmful code or components."
I have just 2 published applications:
- an iOS app on the AppStore that has not been updated for 9 years
- a macOS app the does screen recording to send to Syphon published 2 years ago. It uses macOS security settings to allow/disallow screen access.
I recently helped 2 clients solve their notarization issues:
- one were using an old Electron framework that were causing notarization Reject. Upgrading the framework solved the issue.
- second one had a problematic source code (calling GoogleChrome via NSTask). I have shown the client that without this problematic code, the notarization was OK.
I just wanted to know which "Application" is causing my account termination? Did I notarize good code but with a bundleID that was flagged as suspicious ?
I have been developing as a freelance for macOS/iOS for 16 years.
The lesson here is to ALWAYS use the certificate/app-specific-password of your client.
The problem here is that I could NO LONGER work and this is putting my freelance activity at risk.
