WordPress hosting biz confesses to breach, urgently contacts 30,000 users

  • 10 December 2015
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We’re ‘proactively taking security measures’ - WP Engine

 
                                    


 
10 Dec 2015 at 14:50, Kat Hall
 
WordPress hosting outfit WP Engine has confessed to a security breach, prompting it to reset 30,000 customers' passwords.
 
"At WP Engine we are committed to providing robust security. We are writing today to let you know that we learned of an exposure involving some of our customers’ credentials," it said in a statement yesterday.
 
"Out of an abundance of caution, we are proactively taking security measures across our entire customer base," it added.
 
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Don't you just love it.............they confess to a breach. They probably were discovered and didn't want the embarrassment so they confessed.

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