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GoDaddy – “unauthorized individual” had access to login info
2020-05-05 15:53

We need to inform you of a security incident impacting your GoDaddy web hosting account credentials.

The investigation found that an unauthorized individual had access to your login information used to connect to SSH on 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.

That's why GoDaddy also "Recommend[s] you conduct an audit of your hosting account".

GoDaddy is offering affected customers access to some of its add-on services for free, namely the products it calls Website Security Deluxe and Express Malware Removal.


News URL

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/05/05/godaddy-unauthorized-individual-had-access-to-login-info/