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WordPress.com suffers hacker attack – how to change your password

  • Post author: Omid Farhang
  • Post published: April 14, 2011
  • Reading Time: 2 min
  • Word Count: 392 words

Sophos Labs: Millions of blog owners around the world are being advised to consider their password security, after WordPress.com was hacked. To its credit, Automattic – the company behind the WordPress.com blogging platform – didn’t mince its words or try to apply any spin to the incident, explaining it had suffered a “low-level (root) break-in to several of [its] servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed.” ...

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