Fedora Linux suffers a security incident - compromise risk is minimal

[ Thanks to SMK for this link. ]

"From the 'Dodging Bullets' files:

"The Red Hat sponsored Fedora community Linux project has suffered a security incident in which its infrastructure was compromised.

"No need to worry -- to much -- according to Fedora the risk is minimal.

""At this time, the Infrastructure Team has evidence that indicates the account credentials were compromised externally, and that the Fedora Infrastructure was not subject to any code vulnerability or exploit," Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith stated."

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