http://www.csoonline.com/article/2898128/disaster-recovery/godaddy-accounts-vulnerable-to-social-engineering-and-photoshop.html
By Steve Ragan
CSO
March 19, 2015
On Tuesday, my personal account at GoDaddy was compromised. I knew it was
coming, but considering the layered account protections used by the
world's largest domain registrar, I didn't think my attacker would be
successful.
I was wrong. He was able to gain control over my account within days, and
all he needed to do was speak to customer support and submit a
Photoshopped ID.
GoDaddy serves more than 13 million customers, who in turn place 59
million domains under the registrar's management. They have thousands of
employees working across the globe who help staff the support and
operations teams twenty-four hours a day.
Sometimes, customers forget their account number or password; perhaps they
forget what email they've used to register a domain. In either case,
GoDaddy's support staff are there to assist.
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