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TL;DR: in 2016 Symantec issued unauthorized certs for example.com (owned by ICANN) and a multi-domain cert with SANs for test1.com, test2.com, test3.com... even

by pilom 10y ago

TL;DR: in 2016 Symantec issued unauthorized certs for example.com (owned by ICANN) and a multi-domain cert with SANs for test1.com, test2.com, test3.com... even though those domains are each owned by very different organizations and did not all agree to have a common cert.

agwa 10y ago
It's more than that. The ensuing thread uncovered that Symantec had exercised very lacking oversight over their partners (called Registration Authorities, or RAs) who were allowed to perform certificate validation on Symantec's behalf.
- caf 10y ago
  ...and at least one of those RAs didn't seem to be doing any validation at all!