Unstoppable Domains, a provider of decentralized registration services for domains that reside on the blockchain, lost access to managing its content for less than a day.
The company’s web domain and web site were under the control of hijackers for roughly 17 hours, beginning Thursday, July 11th. In early afternoon the following day, Unstoppable Domains was able to regain control of its services.
What happened?
According to a statement from Unstoppable Domains, an ongoing attack on its registrar, Squarespace, targeted similar other service providers with the intention to send out phishing emails in order to compromise users’ digital wallets.
There is an ongoing investigation at Squarespace despite the lack of an official announcement on their end; in the mean time, Unstoppable Domains’ own investigation shows no evidence of any user data leaks or account compromises.
According to Unstoppable Domains, the incident appears to be limited to their DNS settings with Squarespace. Out of precaution, however, UD is currently in maintenance mode while they are undergoing thorough security checks.
