GoDaddy is known to Israeli users primarily as a domain registrar, but the company also offers web hosting services (not recommended). In recent days, GoDaddy reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the company's servers had been hacked and that 1.2 million WordPress website hosting accounts had been exposed to third parties. The hack exposed email accounts, GoDaddy account numbers, and WordPress admin passwords. In addition, FTP, database, and SSL passwords were also exposed.
According to the report, the initial hack occurred on September 9, 2021. The company is still investigating the circumstances of the incident, with the assistance of law enforcement and a forensic company in the US. According to GoDaddy, the company has reset all passwords and will assist users in installing new SSL certificates.
This is not the first time GoDaddy has experienced a serious breach of its hosting servers. In 2018 and 2020, similar security incidents occurred at the company, and many users' data was leaked.
After the news of the GoDaddy breach was published, it became clear that GoDaddy's reseller hosting services were also affected, including Host Europe and Media Temple. Here too, user login details were exposed, and it took some time for the problem to be fixed.
As mentioned, hosting on GoDaddy's servers is not recommended, and not only because of security issues—their service is notorious for its inefficiency, and they do not provide advanced hosting services. In addition, their shared hosting servers are frequently hacked.
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