Red Hat, Fedora servers infiltrated by attackers

Linux distributor Red Hat has issued a statement revealing that its servers were illegally infiltrated by unknown intruders. According to the company, internal audits have confirmed that the integrity of the Red Hat Network software deployment system was not compromised. The community-driven Fedora project, which is sponsored by Red Hat, also fell victim to a similar attack.

“Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and took immediate action,” Red Hat said in a statement. “We remain highly confident that our systems and processes prevented the intrusion from compromising RHN or the content distributed via RHN and accordingly believe that customers who keep their systems updated using Red Hat Network are not at risk.”

Full story: arstechnica.com