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The GoDaddy.com website makes no mention of the data breach that hit the Web hosting provider, but a picture is coming together on how 445 of its hosting merchant accounts were affected.
September 23
Customer credit card data was not endangered
In reacting to the GoDaddy breach, industry analysts speculated that any type of security breach potentially could allow hackers to get into sensitive customer data. However, Todd Redfoot, GoDaddy's chief information security officer, says the company's Web-hosting system is set up to avoid such a possibility.
"At no time during the incident was any of our customers' personal data exposed or compromised, including their credit card information," Redfoot said in an emailed statement.
GoDaddy does not integrate its handling of credit cards and Web hosting, making it impossible to obtain credit card data by compromising the hosting system, Redfoot said.
The security breach of the 445 GoDaddy.com Web-hosted sites represents only a small number of the more than 5 million sites the company hosts, Nick Fuller, GoDaddy spokesman, says.
