Hackers broke into an Apache Software Foundation server, at the same time, they were able to access an Atlassian server that had a database of unencrypted user passwords.
Network World’s Robert McMillan has the story.
“The attack did not compromise the open-source Web server’s source code repository,” McMillan reported, “but it did give hackers access to a server used by the project to keep track of bugs, and they also obtained low-privilege accounts on another server used to maintain the people.apache.org Web site, according to Philip Gollucci, vice president of Apache infrastructure. ‘None of the source code was affected in any way,’ he said.”
Atlassian employs several Apache developers and hackers were able to access a database containing unencrypted usernames and passwords.
In a blog post, Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said, “We made a big error. For this we are, of course, extremely sorry. The legacy customer database, with passwords stored in plain text, was a liability.”
