Jessica Herrera-Flanigan reports:
Continuing the trend in recent weeks of high-profile sites being attacked, the open source blog program WordPress announced that it was hacked on Wednesday and the hackers potentially made off with “anything.” In a note posted on the WordPress webblog, founder Matt Mullenweg stated “Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed.” Mullenweg went on to state that “break-in was limited but proprietary information could have been accessed.”
While the extent of the hack is unknown, it potentially could have compromised customer information across the extensive 18 million publishers that use WordPress. Among the information potentially compromised is site source code, including possibly API keys and social media passwords.
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