GoDaddy Says Its Troubles Were Not Hacker-Related

GoDaddy, a popular Web site hosting company, said on Tuesday that its extensive service interruptions on Monday were the result of technical problems, not a cyberattack as one hacker has claimed. Scott Wagner, the company's interim chief executiveGoDaddy, the world's largest domain registrar and one of the biggest web hosts, is experiencing major downtime. The main GoDaddy.com domain is unreachab."From government to business, let us assume that everyone understands and agrees on the need for data protection," said security researcher Tony Busseri after the GoDaddy outage.

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