Security News > 2021 > November > GoDaddy Breach Widens to Include Reseller Subsidiaries

Customers of several brands that resell GoDaddy Managed WordPress have also been caught up in the big breach, in which millions of emails, passwords and more were stolen.

The GoDaddy breach affecting 1.2 million customers has widened - it turns out that various subsidiaries that resell GoDaddy Managed WordPress were also affected.

"The GoDaddy brands that resell GoDaddy Managed WordPress are 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple and tsoHost," Dan Rice, vice president of corporate communications at GoDaddy, told Wordfence.

GoDaddy's Managed WordPress hosting environment is a site-building service that allows companies and individuals to use the popular WordPress content management system in a hosted environment without having to manage and update it themselves.

On Monday, the web-hosting giant said in a public filing to the SEC that an "Unauthorized third party" managed to infiltrate its Managed WordPress systems starting on Sept. 6, using stolen credentials - and that the attackers lurked there for almost two and a half months before GoDaddy noticed the breach on Nov. 17.

GoDaddy is in the process of issuing and installing new certificates for affected customers.

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