WordPress Hacked, Attackers Get Root Access 168
An anonymous reader writes "A hacker has gained access to WordPress.com servers and site source code was exposed including passwords/API keys for Twitter and Facebook accounts. From the official blog post: 'Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed. We presume our source code was exposed and copied. While much of our code is Open Source, there are sensitive bits of our and our partner's code. Beyond that, however, it appears information disclosed was limited.'"
Saw some unusual activity this week (Score:2, Informative)
I was seeing some unusual activity on my blog hosted there. I opened a ticket and they thanked me for the info but never got back to me. Just emailed them regarding the ticket to see if they were related. Good thing I immediately went and changed my password for them. I guess I better change it again just to be safe. Mine is definitely not in the dictionary or guessable so I'm not to worried unless they can decrypt the password file. I would hope they encrypt their password file... I'll probably also have to prepare for more spam as well since this is a different emaill addy from last weeks Epsilon breach...
-Brad
Re:the cloud (Score:5, Informative)
wordpress.COM is a hosting service service which offers Wordpress blog setups out-of-the-box.
wordpress.ORG is where the software itself is published.
Re:WTF? (Score:3, Informative)
But they don't own me they though rent me with really cool shit.
Even after they rented me they kept improving the shit they rented me with.
They win too. The serve me up small text ads. Ones that kind of hang back and allow me to see the stuff I want to see.
Because they rented me they also can do a better job of making those unobtrusive text ads sometimes useful.
If they fuck us over then their flock runs away. Then their profits go down. They do not want to do that.
What they want is to continue to serve me really good ads that make them shitloads of money.
What I want is really cool shit and ads that don't make me want to tear my eyes out.
That is why me and Google get along so well.