itunes Connect's maintenance downtime (4th september '13)

I haven't been able to get on for 2 days now. "iTunes connect unavailable due to scheduled Maintenance. Try again later." is the message.
I called developer support and they seemed aware the site is down but offered no further information about duration. At least now the system status shows it is offline.
https://developer.apple.com/support/system-status/

the system-status site doesn't show offline for me. but itunes connect is still down.

Still down.. I was able to get in two days ago, but it was veeeery slow.

Another hacker incident?

I also have been unable to access for a couple of days and just checked system status page which shows as online?

I also confirmed that we can not access iTunes Connect from Japan for more than 2 days. I don't understand what the heck is going on again.

Does anyone have any update on this? I have an app that needs to be submitted today to meet a deadline and iTunesConnect is still down?