Hackers break into Linux Foundation and Linux.com, both taken offline

It's barely two week kernel.org Linux archieve site suffered an attack, the Linux Foundation has removed its websites from the web completely to clean up from a "security breach."

A notice posted on the Linux Foundation said the entire infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011.

The group said, they have made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best pratices and believed this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.

More from the Linux Foundation announcement:

We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We are taking this matter seriously and appreciate your patience. The Linux Foundation infrastructure houses a variety of services and programs including Linux.com, Open Printing, Linux Mark, Linux Foundation events and others, but does not include the Linux kernel or its code repositories.

Although the Kernel.org site is still offline after that compromise which was discovered on August 28th, most of the services offered by the Linux Foundation will be restored immediately the breach has been neutralized and new security measures put in place.