[Ads-l] GoDaddy hack

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Thu Nov 25 13:59:32 UTC 2021


On 11/25/21 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Meanwhile, my hosting service GoDaddy announced that it had suffered a
> massive hack that compromised more than one million websites including
> mine. The hack occurred months ago and was undetected until very
> recently.
>
> I noticed strange activity a few days ago before the GoDaddy
> announcement, and I initiated a security audit. The security service
> has stated that the QI website looks clean.
>
> If you see anything anomalous with the Quote Investigator website
> please let me know. Thanks.
>
> Garson

Oh, crap. We use GoDaddy for our web hosting for my work organization. 
I'm betting that there's an e-mail from them waiting for me in my work 
e-mail. Sigh.

---Amy West

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