Hacked Gentoo Linux server taken offline

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The attack and subsequent compromise comes after several machines belonging to the Debian Linux project were breached by attackers last month. A
forensic analysis of the Debian machines revealed no software packages or source code offered for download were affected–a claim now being made by
Gentoo.

The maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have released a statement which describes the incident: “One of the servers that makes up the
rsync.gentoo.org rotation was compromised via a remote exploit,” it reads. “The compromised system had both an IDS and a file integrity checker
installed and…we are reasonably confident that the portage tree stored on that box was unaffected.”

Link: news.com

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