The leaked data directly affected 1.2 million customers.
The GoDaddy platform is one of the most important domain registration and hosting app in the world and has become the protagonist of a cyber incident that has cost the privacy of its customers. And it is that the app has been a victim of hacking.
According to the same platform, the cybersecurity attack would have exposed the data of more than 1.2 million customers who use the WordPress content management system hosted on their own servers; Exposure of email addresses presents a risk of attacks from phishing (identity fraud).
“We discovered unauthorized third-party access to our managed WordPress hosting environment,” he detailed this Monday to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the statement, the company also shared the background on what happened and the steps they are taking in response. According to the document, GoDaddy He managed to identify the attack with the help of an IT forensic firm and subsequently contacted law enforcement. Upon identifying this incident, they immediately blocked the unauthorized third party from their system to prevent future complications.
GoDaddy also points out that the security breach exposed usernames and passwords for logins. SFTP and databases of WordPress. In some cases, the SSL private key (HTTPS), so the company is in the process of providing new certificates.
“We, the leadership and employees of GoDaddyWe take our responsibility to protect our customers’ data very seriously and we never want to defraud them. We will learn from this incident and we are already taking steps to strengthen our provisioning system with additional layers of protection, ”the document concludes. (I)
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