[Victoria]

just when you think GoDaddy’s reputation couldn’t get any worse, they filed a secret notice with the U.S. government that their web hosting was being exploited by hackers for YEARS and they were not even aware!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-hackers-stole-source-code-installed-malware-in-multi-year-breach/

[Shirley]

if I was writing a parody article about GoDaddy, I couldn’t think of a better headline

[Debra]

STOP USING GODADDY THERE IS NO FIXING THIS COMPANY

[Andrew]

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001609711/e4736ddb-b4c7-485b-a8fc-1827691692c9.pdf?mc_cid=006a7961cd&mc_eid=f4391075b7

We experience cybsersecurity incidents, and any actual or perceived breach of our security could expose us to a risk of loss or litigation and possible
liability and subject us to regulatory or other government inquiries or investigations, which will require us to expend significant capital and other resources to
remediate the breach, any of which would harm our business, financial condition and operating results. For examples, in March 2020, we discovered a threat
actor compromised the hosting login credentials of approximately 28,000 hosting customers to their hosting accounts as well as the login credentials of a small
number of our personnel. These hosting login credentials did not provide access to the hosting customers’ main GoDaddy account. We have spent resources
investigating and responding to this activity, notified the impacted customers, reported the activity to applicable regulatory authorities, and are responding to
requests for information regarding our data privacy and security practices, including from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pursuant to Civil Investigative
Demands issued in July 2020 and October 2021. The timing of resolution and the outcome of this matter are uncertain. In November 2021, using a
compromised password, an unauthorized third party accessed the provisioning system in our legacy code base for Managed WordPress (MWP), which
impacted up to 1.2 million active and inactive MWP customers across multiple GoDaddy brands. We reported the MWP incident to applicable regulatory
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[Michelle]

Sucuri: claiming to protect your WordPress frontend

GoDaddy: actually letting hackers into your hosting backend due to egregious incompetence, and then blaming it on Russia

[Roy]

Why are American consumers so easy to brainwash??

[Joseph]

it’s kind of sad at this point.

[Robert]

It sucks because Godaddy has a huge share of the domain auction market

[Danielle]

It sucks

Not really, just stop using GoDaddy. There’s plenty of domains and domain marketplaces online.

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