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Hackers have, since September, accessed usernames, passwords, email addresses and SSL private keys for GoDaddy customers by compromising their Managed WordPress hosting environment.

The US-based Internet domain registrar and web hosting company said an unauthorised third party accessed GoDaddy’s provisioning system in its legacy code base for Managed WordPress using a compromised password.

The adversary began exploiting the vulnerability on September 6, and GoDaddy discovered the unauthorised access on November 17, according to the company.

“We are sincerely sorry for this incident and the concern it causes for our customers,” GoDaddy chief information security officer Demetrius Comes said in a statement. “We, GoDaddy leadership and employees, take our…

Web hosting giant GoDaddy has reported a data breach with U.S. financial regulators, 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…

The company logo and ticker for GoDaddy Inc. is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Nov 22 (Reuters) – Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc (GDDY.N) said on Monday email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorized third-party access.

The company said the incident was discovered on Nov. 17 and the third-party accessed the system using a compromised password.

“We identified suspicious activity in our Managed WordPress hosting environment and immediately began an investigation with the help of an IT forensics firm and contacted law enforcement,” Chief Information Security Officer Demetrius Comes said in a filing.

The company, whose…

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Jack Espinoza, a former Michigan chapter leader of the terroristic neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, registered the propaganda site on April 15, 2020, according to Hatewatch’s review of a trove of leaked data from Epik, a web hosting company popular with the extreme right for its demonstrated permissiveness of violent and/or hateful content. Espinoza’s site, which Hatewatch has elected not to name to reduce its visibility, has served as a propaganda outlet for proponents of white power accelerationism – a belief, increasingly popular among far-right extremists, that violence and terrorism are the sole means to achieve their political goal of an all-white ethnostate. Among the extremists Espinoza platformed on his website were the National Socialist Order, a group founded by…