Hackers appear to have stolen source code in a root-level attack on WordPress that could compromise its VIP clients including NASA, the BBC and the New York Times.
Attackers compromised Automattic, the company that maintains the popular WordPress publishing platform, and broke into to several servers, gaining access to “potentially anything on those servers”, according to the company.
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said in a statement that it was unlikely that access details were stolen — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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