Very important, but silent news in a blogosphere: some of wordpress.com servers were hacked in a bad way:

Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed.

We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing avenues used to gain access. We presume our source code was exposed and copied. 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.

As soon as you read this, change your wordpress passwords (self hosted wordpress.org accounts indirectly influenced also).

The good news: Matt says that practically zero possibility of usernames/passwords leakage. But for security reasons the main recommendations is to change your password. 

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