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The company that provides web hosting and domain name registration has told the SEC that it had been hacked. An unauthorized third party gained access to the company's managed hosting environment. Up to 1.2 million users have had their email address and customer number exposed, as well as admin passwords for both websites hosted on the platform.
The document says that the investigation is still ongoing and that the breach first occurred on September 6th, 2021. The Chief Information Security Officer says that GoDaddy is working with law enforcement and a private IT forensics firm. It says that it will work with users to issue new certificates and that it has reset the relevant credentials. Comes ends his statement by saying that the company will learn from this incident and will take steps to prevent it in the future.
This is not the first time that GoDaddy has been mentioned in the same sentence as a security incident. In the year 2020, 28,000 user accounts were compromised by an unauthorized individual, after an error on the Amazon Web Services. A number of sites in the criptocurrency space were taken down by a hack.
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