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Hostgator Data Breach (2012)

Hostgator

lowVERIS
Disclosed

February 15, 2012

5154 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

An employee was found to have installed backdoors on more than 2,700 company servers. The issue was discovered the day after the dishonest employee was dismissed. He worked for Hostgator from September 2011 to February 15, 2012. The dishonest employee was arrested and charged with breach of computer security.