GoDaddy notifies users of breached hosting accounts

guest · May 4, 2020

GoDaddy notifies users of breached hosting accounts
May 4, 2020
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-notifies-users-of-breached-hosting-accounts/

GoDaddy notified some of its customers that an unauthorized party used their web hosting account credentials to connect to their hosting account via SSH.

The security incident took place on October 19, 2019, after the company's security team discovered suspicious activity on a subset of GoDaddy's servers.
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"The investigation found that an unauthorized individual had access to your login information used to connect to SSH on your hosting account," GoDaddy revealed in the notification letter sent to affected customers.
The company says that it has not yet found any evidence of the attackers adding or modifying any files on the impacted accounts' hosting.

Even though the breach notification letter's wording doesn't point to the exact reason behind this incident, GoDaddy's message and offer of free services show that this was not likely the customers' fault.
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ronjor · May 5, 2020

GoDaddy data breach shows why businesses need to better secure their customer data

by Lance Whitney in Security on May 5, 2020
An unauthorized person was able to access the login credentials of a number of accounts with the hosting company.
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guest · May 6, 2020

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GoDaddy notifies users of breached hosting accounts May 4, 2020
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Update: GoDaddy's Vice President for Corporate Communications told BleepingComputer in an official statement that roughly 28,000 customers' hosting accounts were affected in the incident.
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GoDaddy confirms security breach affecting 28,000 hosting accounts
May 6, 2020
https://www.engadget.com/go-daddy-confirms-security-breach-120534835.html

GoDaddy has admitted to BleepingComputer that 28,000 customers’ hosting accounts had been compromised in a security breach. The company notified affected users through an email that an “unauthorized individual” obtained access to their login information. It added that it found no evidence that the compromised accounts’ files had been modified in any way and that it had already blocked the unauthorized individual from its systems.
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