Any traction on this? I'm seeing the identical error while working through the Landmarks tutorial.

Same problem here

Same here. I’m not so worried about Apple itself, but rather its “third-party identity verification service,” whose name is not included on the website. According to the ** on this page, there should be an alternate way of identifying yourself, but the support staff on the phone acted like there wasn’t. https://developer.apple.com/support/app-account/ I’m confused.