Apple Has Started Banning Hackers from App Store

Sherif Hashim A.K.A - iH8sn0w is the user behind Sn0wbreeze, the jailbreaking tool for Windows. These are not your typical hackers/jailbreakers -they have publicized an exploit and still maintain jailbreaking tools. Plus, they used their handles in the account emails, which wasn't the best practice. We'll see if the issue becomes more widespread.

Sherif stated on his twitter account - 

'Your Apple ID was banned for security reasons', that's what i get when i try to go to the app store, they must be really angry :) )))) and guess what my apple ID was, 'sherif_hashim@yahoo.com', what a fool was me not to notice :) )), can't help laughing, they are babies :) ))'

Sherif recently found an exploit in iPhone OS 3.1.3 to unlock 05.12.01 Baseband for iPhone 3G and 3GS, which was later confirmed by the iPhone Dev-Team.

Hacker iH8sn0w was the second to report the issue, saying on Twitter:

'@sherif_hashim lol, they did that to my ih8sn0wyday[@]googmail.com too. (right after I posted XEMN)...'

After Serif_hashim's was questioned - use of 'banned' because this message can be triggered by entering a bad password several times across any service that uses your Apple ID, like the App Store, iTunes, Apple Photo Services and MobileMe. It's not likely that he entered a bad password enough times, but it's possible. Users in this situation can use iForgot to regain access.