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GoDaddy hack: Miscreant goes AWOL with 28,000 users' SSH login creds after vandalizing server-side file

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Re: How very 1990s

It sounds like it was a key-file that got altered.

GoDaddy wouldn't have the private keys, they would have the public keys to check against when logging on. At a guess, the hackers added their own public keys to the affected accounts to enable access.

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