Consumer Law
GoDaddy Announces a Data Breach That Exposed Information on 1.2 Million Customers
Internet domain host GoDaddy on Monday disclosed a recent data breach that the company said impacted the customer data of around 1.2 million individuals.
In a document filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, GoDaddy noted that the company had discovered its Managed WordPress hosting environment had been compromised by an “unauthorized third party,” resulting in emails and customers numbers of 1.2 million Managed WordPress users being exposed.
GoDaddy warned that data breach, which had been ongoing since September, increased the chances of email phishing attacks against impacted customers.
