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WordPress Servers Hacked At Root Level

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It's why security it paramount. FYI

http://informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/229401577?cid=nl_IW_dai...

WordPress Servers Hacked At Root Level
Source code exposed, putting passwords for WordPress.com-hosted blogs at risk of being cracked.

By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek
April 14, 2011 11:13 AM

On Wednesday, Automattic, which produces the WordPress blogging platform, disclosed that its servers had been hacked.
"Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed," said Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, on the official WordPress blog.


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