11:56 PM  Shubham Yadav  No comments

Malicious hackers have successfully breached WordPress.com servers and potentially made off with sensitive bits of the publishing platform's underlying code. The breach could impact premium customers using WordPress for their websites, such as Flickr, NASA, Yahoo, and the New York Times.
The news comes among a surge of recent hack attacks against high-profile companies, including RSA, Epsilon, and HBGary. Additionally, it marks the yet another major attack on Automattic, the maker of WordPress, which most recently suffered a DDoS attack last month.
Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg announced the breach this morning in his blog, saying that several of Automattic's servers had been hit by a low-level (root) break-in. He said that the company is reviewing logs and records to determine the extent of the breach but at the time of writing, "