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The domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy has revealed that it suffered a data breach in which the user data of 1.2m of its customers may have been accessed.

In a filing with with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company’s chief information security officer Demetrius Comes explained that an “unauthorized third party” had gained access to its managed WordPress hosting environment.

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…

The credit card numbers and online activity of people frequenting several far-right websites have been compromised after the Anonymous hacktivist collective breached Epik. Epik is a web-hosting company known for serving groups such as the Oath Keepers and social media networks Gab and Parler.

After a massive data dump by Anonymous, users of websites hosted by Epik were notified their credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised. In a breach notification report to the state of Maine filed on Sept. 20, Epik’s attorney said 110,000 people were affected by the data breach.

In addition to exposed credit card numbers, internet investigators have been combing through the data dump to “out” people who have expressed supposed white supremacist and far-fight views…

The credit card numbers and online activity of people frequenting several far-right websites have been compromised after the Anonymous hacktivist collective breached Epik. Epik is a web-hosting company known for serving groups such as the Oath Keepers and social media networks Gab and Parler.

After a massive data dump by Anonymous, users of websites hosted by Epik were notified their credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised. In a breach notification report to the state of Maine filed on Sept. 20, Epik’s attorney said 110,000 people were affected by the data breach.

In addition to exposed credit card numbers, internet investigators have been combing through the data dump to “out” people who have expressed…

Security researchers have discovered a huge data breach involving a web hosting firm, which may have threatened the privacy of some 63 million individuals. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, in collaboration with Secure Thoughts, discovered that an unsecured database hosted by US firm Cloud Clusters had potentially compromised usernames and passwords connected with Magento, WordPress and MySQL.

The exposed database contained records concerning data backups, monitoring, error logging, and more, with emails and passwords displayed in plain text.