Hackers Tricked GoDaddy Employees into Helping Attacks on Crypto Services

Hackers tricked GoDaddy into helping attacks on cryptocurrency services

GoDaddy’s Security challenges in 2020 haven’t ended. KrebsOnSecurity has found that hackers tricked many GoDaddy employees into transferring ownership or control of the web domains of several cryptocurrency services, inadvertently assisting in site shut down attacks. It is not known how many companies have fallen victim to these efforts, but Liquid.com and NiceHash have reported … Read more

GoDaddy Acquires SkyVerge for Deeper WooCommerce Integration

GoDaddy Acquires SkyVerge

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), announced today that it had entered into a merger and acquisition agreement to acquire SkyVerge, a WooCommerce extension developer with more than 60 premium WooCommerce extensions, spanning email marketing, memberships, payments & billing, and many more and used by over 100,000 online store merchants for their eCommerce sites. SkyVerge is a highly … Read more

GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach – 28000 Customers Affected

GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach

GoDaddy, one of the most famous domain registrar and hosting companies out there, have notified its customers about security issues and data leakage they have experienced: The media have reported that the problem affected all 19 million customers of the company, and the incident took place in the fall of 2019. However, The Register reports … Read more