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http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/30/godaddy-accepts-partial-responsibility-social-engineering-attack-ns-customer-account/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/201
by slack3r 13y ago
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/30/godaddy-accepts-partial-responsibility-social-engineering-attack-ns-customer-account/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/30/godaddy-accepts-par...
"Our review of the situation reveals that the hacker was already in possession of a large portion of the customer information needed to access the account at the time he contacted GoDaddy. The hacker then socially engineered an employee to provide the remaining information needed to access the customer account. The customer has since regained full access to his GoDaddy account, and we are working with industry partners to help restore services from other providers. We are making necessary changes to employee training to ensure we continue to provide industry-leading security to our customers and stay ahead of evolving hacker techniques."
It's likely the attacker obtained credit card info from GoDaddy rather than PayPal.
- MarkTee 13y ago"evolving hacker techniques"? I'm pretty sure that these fancy tactics can be found in The Art of Deception, which was released in 2002. Social engineering is nothing new.
- zimpenfish 13y agoThey can probably be found in any writing since about when people discovered that manipulation and lying got them a warmer spot in the cave and a bigger slice of mammoth pie.