Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has announced that hackers have breached its security and broken in to several of its servers, putting any information on them at risk.
Automattic and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg says that Wednesday's incident was a low-level root access breach. The company is reviewing its data logs to figure out what information may have been stolen and is working on patching any holes in its security. It seems unlikely that personally identifiable user information was taken during the attack, but Automattic has yet to complete its investigation.
"We presume our source code was exposed and copied," Mullenweg stated on the company's blog. "While much of our code is open source, there are sensitive bits of our and our partners’ code. Beyond that, however, it appears information disclosed was limited."