There was a massvie data breach from well known web domain name registrars . Although we weren’t affected by this recent breach, we know how it feels since we went through this in 2017 through Equifax. The guilty party this time happens to be Web.com, a leading web technology company.
So what was stolen in this recent during this well known web domain name registrars data breach? The good part, there wasn’t any credit card information stolen. However customers should know that some of their private information was stolen which includes:
- Names
- Addresses
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Information about the services offered to a customer
Although passwords on the customers logins weren’t compromised, it’s still a good idea to change your passwords. Not only on Web.com, but on all of your online accounts. Just because it happened on your domain name registrar, doesn’t mean it won’t soon happen on another password protected site you are signed up with. Trust us, it can happen on any web business website.
According to Thehackernews.com, ” The companies took necessary steps to stop the security intrusion upon discovery and immediately launched an investigation by engaging a leading independent cybersecurity firm to determine the scope of the incident.”
Nevertheless, we stronly urge anyone that was affected by this to keep monitoring your credit card and bank accounts to be safe. Considering this was an online breach, you should also be suspicious of phishing emails. In other words, if you aren’t familiar with who the email is from, proceed with extreme caution.
As a final note, if this can happen to large financial institutions, it will happen to leading web domain registrars. Yes, it’s not a great feeling, but these bad things happen to good people. These web domain name registrars are taking the necessary steps to prevent this from happening again. However, you have the option to move those domains, or take the necessary steps to update and secure your accounts.
