{"id":799190,"date":"2021-11-23T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/11\/23\/godaddy-security-breach-exposes-wordpress-users-data\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:23:19","slug":"godaddy-security-breach-exposes-wordpress-users-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/11\/23\/godaddy-security-breach-exposes-wordpress-users-data\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy security breach exposes WordPress users&#8217; data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc said on Monday email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorised third-party access.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the incident was discovered on November 17 and the third party accessed the system using a compromised password.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Chief Information Security Officer Demetrius Comes said in a filing.<\/p>\n<p>The company, whose shares fell about 1.6% in early trading, said it had immediately blocked the unauthorized third party, and an investigation was still going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc said on Monday email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorised third-party access. The company said the incident was discovered on November 17 and the third party accessed the system using a compromised password. &#8220;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,&#8221; Chief Information Security Officer Demetrius Comes said in a filing. The company, whose shares fell about 1.6% in early trading, said it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}