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GoDaddy store your passwords in clear-text and may try to SSH to your VPS without permission

“I was shocked! My first thought was that someone had stolen my
GoDaddy password (that I use to login to their web page) and even
my previous password! (I had changed my password a few weeks before
that).

“I quickly ran and started a panic mode incident response,
changed passwords and started to look how I got hacked and what was
going on, when I decided to look at the IP address that tried to
access my box:

$ whois 64.202.160.65
    [Querying whois.arin.net]
    [whois.arin.net]

    OrgName: GoDaddy.com, Inc.


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