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Adirael
on Nov 27, 2012
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Alert: Backdoor placed in Piwik
From what I gather on their post someone used a vulnerable Wordpress plugin to write onto the web server's filesystem, overwriting the latest.tar.gz file with it's own hacked version. You should be safe if you didn't update using that file.
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