GoDaddy Hacked 2012: Server, Email, Online Registrar's Security Compromised By DNS Hack
GoDaddy.com, the largest domain name registrar on the internet has removed online, and a member of the Anonymous hacktivism collective is admitting to it.
The GoDaddy administration had confirmed on Monday that they were dealing with some technical discrepancies, which TechCrunch claims to be affecting a plethora of websites and their associated email accounts that are linked to the respective service. Although the company has discussed any details on the issue, a self-describing member of the Anonymous group stated that he or she is allegedly the one to blame for the hacking. However, no verifications have been made as of now.
According to Twitter, user@AnonymousOwn3r posted the following message:
"The attack is not coming from Anonymous collective [sic], the attack it's coming only from me" and that the the action is being carried out "to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that I can not talk now."
GoDaddy had responded with a tweet of its own on the matter.
"We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We're working on it."
It was reported on Friday that the White House is in preparation for a cyber security Executive Order that will aim to act as a surrogate until Congress can reach an agreement on a bipartisan legislation to better protect the United States' computer infrastructure.
Earlier in the year, GoDaddy had stated that they would be support the Stop Piracy Act, which is a controversial legislation that upon approval would immensely alter the United States government's ability to monitor the web. However, the company had reversed its view, but not prior to a large protest that led to numerous users jumping ship to other domain registrars.
The protest had allegedly halted with thousands of GoDaddy's customers, which includes Wikipedia terminating their accounts.
Other social media accounts associated with Anonymous have not verified the validity of the reported culprit's proclamation. GoDaddy's technical support service has also been inaccessible during the ordeal.
