A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming ... to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source project said.

The PHP project ... been detected, the code could have ultimately poisoned the binary package repositories which countless organizations rely upon and trust. Open-source projects which are self ...

Additionally, the malicious commit was made in the name of PHP creator, Rasmus Lerdorf. But, that is hardly surprising as with source code version ... to the PHP project will now need to be ...