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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…

• RightForge, an internet infrastructure company, said it would host Trump’s social media network TruthSocial, according to a report by Axios.
• The firm is preparing for TruthSocial to reach 75 million users, said CEO Martín Avila.
• Avila has been an advocate for a “second internet” as an alternative to what he calls Big Tech’s “unchecked power.”

DreamHost has been banished by security researchers who have discovered that approximately 814 million customer records have been leaked under the supervision of a web hosting company.

A password-unprotected database containing records was discovered by security researcher and co-founder of Security Discovery, Jeremiah Fowler, and a research team at Website Planet.

1Gbps Broadband Being Extended to Over 800 Rural Customers within the Next Two Years

BREVARD, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comporium will bring faster broadband speeds to areas of Transylvania county with a $2.8 million grant from North Carolina’s Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Program. Altogether, the improvements will require over $7 million.

The project includes the construction of 105 miles of fiber optic cable that will provide service to over 800 customers using a partnership arrangement with Haywood Electric Membership Corporation (EMC). An anticipated start date for construction is still being determined, but once it begins, Comporium expects the construction process to take approximately two years.

“Access to broadband is more important than…