Web hosting company GoDaddy reveals new hack exposed up to 1.2 MILLION of its customer emails and numbers that puts users at risk of phishing attacks

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Daily Mail UK
By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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GoDaddy, an internet domain and web hosting company, announced that almost 1.2 million of its customers’ accounts were exposed in a recent hack.
The American company filed an incident report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, stating it had identified ‘suspicious activity’ in its Managed WordPress hosting environment.
According to the document, ‘an unauthorized third party accessed the provisioning system in our legacy code base for Managed WordPress.’
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