Data Breach

GoDaddy-owned hosting company Domainfactory hacked

The hosting company Domainfactory has taken down its forums after hackers posted messages claiming to have breached into its infrastructure.

While I was writing about the Timehope security breach, another incident is making the headlines, the victim is the German hosting company Domainfactory.

The hosting company, that was owned by GoDaddy since 2016, has taken down its forums after hackers posted messages informing visitors that they have breached into the Domainfactory infrastructure.

The company notified the data breach to the customers and asked them to change their passwords.

“On July 3, 2018, a person in the DomainFactory forum claimed access to DomainFactory customer data. We initiated a detailed investigation and found that customer data was accessed by an outside party without authorization. The access route is now secured.” wrote a company representative.

“We contact all customers with the recommendation to update their DomainFactory passwords. Instructions for changing your passwords can be found here: 
https://www.df.eu/blog/pw/

We have notified the data protection authority and commissioned external experts with the investigation. The protection of the data of our customers is paramount and we regret the inconvenience this incident causes, very much.”

The company notified the data protection authorities and is investigating the hack with the help of external experts.

The Domainfactory staff first learned of the incident in the early evening of July 3, 2018, the security team dated the data breach as January 28, 2018.

A first investigation confirmed that unauthorized third parties could have had access to the several categories of data, including customer name, company name, customer number, address, E-mail addresses, phone number, DomainFactory phone password, date of birth, bank name and account number (eg IBAN or BIC), and Schufa score.

In response to the attack, the company secured the breached systems.

The hack was disclosed by the German media outlet Heise, that noticed the strange messages of the hackers published on the forums.

The German journalist Fabian Scherschel also posted on Twitter (in German) that he noticed a thread, before public disclosure of the incident, “in which Lauter #Domainfactory customers ask a hacker about their data because DF does not respond to their requests”

According to the Heise, hackers exploited a variant of the Dirty Cow flaw to breach into the systems.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Domainfactory, data breach)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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