Hey Apple, were you hosting hacked copies of Xcode?

[Update: According to Apple, the validation procedure described in this article may not work with Xcode versions earlier than 7.0. See this follow-on article for details.] 

Yesterday morning, Apple sent out an email to developers advising them that Apple had “removed apps from the App Store that were built with a counterfeit version of Xcode, which had the potential to cause harm to customers.”

Apple also suggested, as Fahmida Rashid reported Monday, that counterfeit copies of Xcode downloaded from third-party servers, not Apple’s, were responsible for creating the malware-infected apps. Concurrent with the email, a post on the Apple developer blog appeared suggesting that developers validate their copy of Xcode to ensure it wasn’t a counterfeit copy spewing XcodeGhost malware.

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