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GoDaddy (May 2020 Root Cause)

22 Nov 2021 · National · Technology
Data Breach HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

GoDaddy disclosed that a compromised administrative password string gave threat actors persistent access to a legacy provisioning code repository. The breach exposed the email contacts, original database passwords, and active SSL keys of over a million global managed WordPress clients.

Incident details

Organisation
GoDaddy (May 2020 Root Cause)
Date
22 Nov 2021
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
HIGH
Sector
Technology
State
National
Records affected
1200000
Threat actor
Unknown

Source

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