Web hosting giant GoDaddy has reported a data breach, and warns that data on 1.2 million customers may have been accessed.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, GoDaddy’s chief information security officer Demetrius Comes said the company detected unauthorized access to its systems where it hosts and manages its customers’ WordPress servers. WordPress is a web-based content management system used by millions to set up blogs or websites. GoDaddy lets customers host their own WordPress installs on their servers.

GoDaddy said the unauthorized person used a compromised password to get access to GoDaddy’s systems around September 6. GoDaddy said it discovered the breach last week on November 17. It’s not clear if the compromised password was protected with two-factor…

As we hope you already know, we are committed to making sure that our servers run as smoothly as possible and that every website on our hosting platform is as secure as we can make it. That’s why we continually review and optimise our server settings.

An upcoming change will affect the handling of files in the Trash folder within your home directory. This folder stores files that you have deleted using the File Manager feature in cPanel. Until now, deleted files have remained in the Trash indefinitely, or until you manually emptied the trash. This means that there are a lot of unwanted files taking up unnecessary storage space on our hosting servers.

To optimise server resources, and for efficient storage management, we are going to begin automatically deleting files from the…