After conducting an investigation, GoDaddy has found that there was an unauthorized individual who gained access to customer login information. With this information this individual was able to connect to customer hosting accounts through SSH. It is currently unknown how many people have been affected. At this time, only hosting accounts have been affected. GoDaddy is advising its users to conduct audits on their hosting accounts. Main GoDaddy.com customer accounts and information stored within these customer account have not been accessible.

What This Means

When a site is breached, your personal information can be accessed by hackers and can be made publicly available on the internet. Any information of a person has a chance to be exposed, no matter how secure the site can be.

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