iTunes Connect timeout / downtime issues

So .. iTunes Connect has been experiencing issues for the past 3 days now ... Developers are not being let into https://itunesconnect.apple.com/ or when they are in, they experience random timeouts which makes it impossible to submit any apps to the App Store ..

If iTunes Connect was an iOS app and Apple guys sent it to themselves...it will be rejected!
— Alessandro Mondaini (@iguana_02) September 6, 2013

I got lucky and managed to submit an update to an app 2 days ago, but its status took about 10 hours to change to 'Waiting for Review'.
I have not seen any official  statement from Apple regarding what could possibly be the reason behind these issues, which is very surprising. TechCrunch is also staying quiet on the matter ( the latter does not surprise me as much ).
It is baffles me that a company with such a Dev following decides to NOT communicate/address issues when they happen. #FAIL

Times have changed @Apple ... The Google Play store is at the moment doing just fine and I was able to publish the Android version of the same app yesterday without any issues :)