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GoDaddy Accounts Vulnerable To Social Engineering (and Photoshop)

Posted by Soulskill on from the only-as-strong-as-its-weakest-hyperlink dept.

itwbennett writes: On Tuesday, Steve Ragan's GoDaddy account was compromised. He knew it was coming, but considering the layered account protections used by the world's largest domain registrar, he didn't think the attacker would be successful. He was wrong. Within days, the attacker gained control over Steve's account just by speaking to customer support and submitting a Photoshopped ID.

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  1. Meh by grimmjeeper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is reason 363956 why you don't want to use GoDaddy to host your name or accounts.

  2. Re:Godaddy are thieving wankers dot com by Dr_Barnowl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For a 2 word .com domain name that had been previously unregistered for 30 years? And was registered for the first time shortly after I fed it into a whois query box on their site?

    No. There's no coincidence there.