Large domain name registrar discloses security breach.
Web.com announced today that a security breach might have disclosed credit card information of 93,000 of its customers.
The company owns Network Solutions and Register.com. Although most domain name investors use lower-cost registrars, many have accounts with these registrars for expired domain names. The registrars don’t necessarily have your credit card information, though, as domains won at NameJet are paid through NameJet. Update: See FAQs from Web.com. Register.com and Network Solutions were not affected, and all people potentially affected have received an email by now.
Web.com will provide a year of free credit monitoring for customers that may have been affected. I assume this means they will notify customers if their information might have been revealed through the breach.
David says
What about Snapnames customers?
Acro says
Ditto!
Andrew Allemann says
My guess is this is on the registrar side. Otherwise they would have rushed to alleviate concerns by saying it was just from a company they recently bought. I guess we’ll see.
John says
Snapnames was not impacted by this incident.
Andrew Allemann says
Thanks John
IB says
A WHOLE year of free credit monitoring to see how much your breach will @#$ me over – how generous!
John Berryhill says
Well, in all likelihood, the thieves will put fewer charges on your card for things you didn’t want than Netsol does. (heh)