Security News > 2021 > November > GoDaddy Data Breach Exposes Over 1 Million WordPress Customers' Data

Web hosting giant GoDaddy on Monday disclosed a data breach that resulted in the unauthorized access of data belonging to a total of 1.2 million active and inactive customers, making it the third security incident to come to light since 2018.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the world's largest domain registrar said that a malicious third-party managed to gain access to its Managed WordPress hosting environment on September 6 with the help of a compromised password, using it to obtain sensitive information pertaining to its customers.

The Arizona-based company claims over 20 million customers, with more than 82 million domain names registered using its services.

Email addresses and customer numbers of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers.

GoDaddy said it's in the process of issuing and installing new certificates for the impacted customers.

While data breaches are no longer a sporadic occurrence, the exposure of email addresses and passwords presents risk of phishing attacks, not to mention enable the attackers to breach the vulnerable WordPress sites to upload malware and access other personally identifiable information stored in them.

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