GoDaddy Inc (GDDY.N), a web hosting business, said on Monday that unauthorized third-party access had exposed the email addresses of up to 1.2 million current and inactive Managed WordPress clients.
The problem was found on Nov. 17 and the third party accessed the system using a compromised password, according to the business.
In a filing, Chief Information Security Officer Demetrius Comes claimed, “We discovered suspicious activity in our Managed WordPress hosting environment and quickly initiated an investigation with the support of an IT forensics firm and alerted law police.”
The company, whose stock dropped 1.6 percent in early trading, said it had barred the illegal third party right away and that an inquiry was ongoing.
(The event was discovered on Nov. 17, not Sept. 6, as stated in the second paragraph of this post.)
