![]() That’s why GoDaddy also “recommend you conduct an audit of your hosting account”. In other words, even though resetting your account at this stage was something that GoDaddy needed to do, any crook or crooks who knew your login details could, in theory, have been riffling through your stuff for more than six months. There’s more, including a warning that your account information was reset and how to get back into your account, but from a technical point of view – what actually happened and how the breach was detected – there is only the above text to go on.Ĭlearly this isn’t just a case of credential stuffing, where accounts were accessed because their passwords were the same as the passwords used on other services that had already been breached, or GoDaddy wouldn’t have filed a breach notification.Īlso, what’s not obvious from the breach letter (though it is stated on the State of California’s website), is that the breach dates back to October 2019. The unauthorized individual has been blocked from our systems, and we continue to investigate potential impact across our environment. We have no evidence that any files were added or modified on your account. The investigation found that an unauthorized individual had access to your login information used to connect to SSH on your hosting account. ![]() We recently identified suspicious activity on a subset of our servers and immediately began an investigation. We need to inform you of a security incident impacting your GoDaddy web hosting account credentials. ![]() ![]() Subject: Security Incident Impacting Your GoDaddy Web Hosting Account If you’re a GoDaddy customer, you’ll know if you were on the list of affected accounts if you see a message like this: The breach letter that’s now part of the public record is just a template, with blanks for the name of the recipient and for a phone number relevant to their region, but it sets out what’s known so far. Web hosting behemoth GoDaddy just filed a data breach notification with the US state of California.
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