Customer credit card data was not endangered during last week’s security breach of a small portion of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com Inc., a company executive says.
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.com 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 wrote in a statement e-mailed to PaymentsSource.
Moreover, GoDaddy does not integrate the credit card and Web-hosting system, making it impossible to obtain credit card data from the system, Redfoot said.
The security breach of the 445 GoDaddy.com Web-hosted sites represents only a small fraction of the more than 5 million sites the company hosts, Nick Fuller, GoDaddy spokesperson, tells PaymentsSource.
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