Amazon Web Services Error Exposes 31,000 GoDaddy Servers
Data leaks are par for the course these days, and the latest company to be involved in one is GoDaddy. The company, which says it’s the world’s top domain name registrar with over 18 million customers, is the subject of a new report from cybersecurity firm UpGuard that was shared exclusively with Engadget. In June, cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered files containing detailed server information stored in an unsecured S3 bucket — a cloud storage service from Amazon Web Services. A look into the files revealed multiple versions of data for over 31,000 GoDaddy systems.
In the most recent revision of the exposed spreadsheet, there were eight tabs with information on GoDaddy’s AWS usage as well as pricing and discounts the company was offered by Amazon. It also contained server configuration information including memory and CPU specifications, hostnames, operating systems and server workloads. “Essentially, this data mapped a very large scale AWS cloud infrastructure deployment,” UpGuard notes, which could give competitors a look into GoDaddy’s business practices and more malicious actors a better strategy for attack.
