Harold Mansfield
04-13-2011, 04:19 PM
It appears that there was a low level hack of the Automatic servers where some information was disclosed.
Matt has announced on the WordPress blog that there has been a low-level root break-in and that anything on the server could have been revealed.
The guys at Automatic are working hard to determine what information has been stolen as well as re-securing the server.
This has no effect on self hosted Wordpress users, unless they are hosted by Automatic. The article also says that some Facebook and Twitter passwords may have been compromised.
You can read a short article about it here:
Security Incident Hits Automattic Affecting WordPress.com Users | WordPress News at WPMU.org (http://wpmu.org/security-incident-hits-automattic-affecting-wordpress-com-users/)
Techcrunch:
Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers, Site Source Code Exposed (http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/13/hacker-gains-access-to-wordpress-com-servers/)
And on the Automatic blog:
Security Incident — Blog — WordPress.com (http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/security/)
Matt has announced on the WordPress blog that there has been a low-level root break-in and that anything on the server could have been revealed.
The guys at Automatic are working hard to determine what information has been stolen as well as re-securing the server.
This has no effect on self hosted Wordpress users, unless they are hosted by Automatic. The article also says that some Facebook and Twitter passwords may have been compromised.
You can read a short article about it here:
Security Incident Hits Automattic Affecting WordPress.com Users | WordPress News at WPMU.org (http://wpmu.org/security-incident-hits-automattic-affecting-wordpress-com-users/)
Techcrunch:
Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers, Site Source Code Exposed (http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/13/hacker-gains-access-to-wordpress-com-servers/)
And on the Automatic blog:
Security Incident — Blog — WordPress.com (http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/security/)