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WASHINGTON: US web company GoDaddy apologized on Thursday (December 25) after an email promising employees a Christmas bonus amid the economic crisis turned out to be a test of computer security.
“GoDaddy takes the security of our platform very seriously. We understand that some employees were upset by the phishing attempt and found it insensitive, for which we have apologized,” said a spokesperson for GoDaddy, the domain management company for GoDaddy. The world’s largest internet. AFP in a statement.
“While the test mimicked the actual attempts at play today, we must do better and be more responsive to our employees,” the Arizona-based company added.
In December, around 500 employees clicked on an email from the company offering a $ 650 Christmas bonus and asking them to fill out a form with their personal details.
Two days later, a different message appeared in their inboxes.
“You received this email because you failed our recent phishing test,” read the email from GoDaddy’s chief security officer, according to the Arizona Copper Courier newspaper.
The phishing technique, widely used by hackers, sees emails pretending to be a person known to the intended target, with the aim of obtaining information to infiltrate their computer systems.
The test email caused quite a stir on social media as millions of Americans have been severely affected by the economic crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
