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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…

Airbnb customers have been shocked to discover they have been staying under the same roof as a registered sex offender.

The small Ringwood rental unit, in Melbourne’s outer-east has been listed on the platform for eight years.

It advertises a room with a single bed, alongside a heads up – ‘you’ll share parts of the home with the host’ – including a shared bathroom.

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That host is Serge Ranwala, who in 2016 was found guilty of 11 charges, including two counts of committing an indecent act with a person having a cognitive impairment and nine counts of sexual penetration.

He committed the crimes on a disabled resident over four days in May 2014, while working…