GoDaddy notified some of its customers that an unauthorized party used their web hosting account credentials to connect to their hosting account via SSH.
The security incident took place on October 19, 2019, after the company's security team discovered suspicious activity on a subset of GoDaddy's servers.
GoDaddy is the world’s largest domain registrar and a web hosting company that provides services to roughly 19 million customers around the world.
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"The investigation found that an unauthorized individual had access to your login information used to connect to SSH on your hosting account," GoDaddy revealed in the
notification letter sent to affected customers.
The company says that it has not yet found any evidence of the attackers adding or modifying any files on the impacted accounts' hosting.
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