Major Data Breach at GoDaddy
Published on August 13, 2018
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It seems that GoDaddy uses the buckets at AmazonS3 to manage their hosting. One of these buckets was misconfigured by an AWS salesperson resulting in 31,000 servers being exposed to potential hackers.
The data exposed will also provide GoDaddy's competition with their pricing structure and could be a major coup for the competition to provide leverage to get similar pricing and overcome the advantage that GoDaddy gets on their pricing structure.
What is especially disturbing to me is that while GoDaddy was notified of the breach on June 17th, they did not remove access to the exposed files for 5 weeks. Their public response was that no current user data was exposed and only speculative models were exposed.
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Security online is a major concern. WA handles this with the utmost care. We are also on Amazon S3 servers though so the potential is always there.
More information can be found at these links:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/09/amazon-aws-error-exposes...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-error-exposed-godaddy-serv...
I had a brief discussion with Kyle on this issue here is his response:
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