
Automatic, the company that owns the Word Press.com blogging platform that powers more than 18 million blogs, announced this morning that its servers had been broken into and source code, among other things, could have been exposed. Word Press founder Matt Mullenweg writes 'Tough note to communicate today: Automatic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed.' According to Mullenweg, the break-in was limited but proprietary information could have been accessed: We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent...