The Epoch Times Web registrar and hosting company GoDaddy announced Monday that email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers were accessed by an unauthorized third party using a compromised password.
In a disclosure filed with the SEC, GoDaddy Inc. said that the data breach incident was discovered on Nov. 17. âUpon identifying this incident, we immediately blocked the unauthorized third party from our system,â said Demetrius Comes, the companyâs Chief Information Security Officer, in the filing. An investigation is currently ongoing.
Based on findings by IT forensics, the hackers gained access to customer information using the vulnerability beginning Sept. 6. The third parties had remained undetected for more than 70 days, which is concerning.
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