GoDaddy Breach Compromised Credentials of 28,000 Customers
- No indication hacker used customer credentials, company says
- Suspicious activity dates to October, discovered last month
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A breach at GoDaddy.com LLC, the domain name registrar and website hosting company, compromised usernames and passwords of approximately 28,000 of the company’s 19 million customers.
On April 17, GoDaddy discovered and began investigating suspicious activity that dated back to October, a company representative said. Six days later, GoDaddy identified affected customers and began remediation, the representative said.