GoDaddy, arguably the leading web hosting company, has revealed a multi-year security breach that allowed unknown third parties to access the company’s source code and employee and customer login credentials. The perpetrators also installed malware that redirected customer websites to malicious sites.
- GoDaddy has disclosed a multi-year data breach in which unknown attackers breached its cPanel shared hosting environment.
- The web hosting company revealed that the attackers stole its source code, employee and customer login credentials, and installed malware on its servers.
- GoDaddy says it has put in place security measures to prevent similar attacks from now on and that the company is working with law enforcement to stop the attackers.