Email addresses of up to 1.2 mn users exposed, says GoDaddy
GoDaddy says the incident was discovered on Nov. 17 and the third-party accessed the system using a compromised password.
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GoDaddy says the incident was discovered on Nov. 17 and the third-party accessed the system using a compromised password.
Web hosting company GoDaddy disclosed it was hacked in September, and that the hackers gained access to customer data.
The company says an attacker used a compromised password to access its provisioning system, giving them access to email addresses, some passwords, and even a number of customers’ private SSL keys.
The hack relates to GoDaddy's WordPress hosting service..
GoDaddy has been hacked and customer data for some 1.2 million WordPress users were exposed to the attacker for more than three months.