This is a case that is having a certain impact on the other side of the Atlantic. GoDaddy, the world’s largest internet domain name management company has admitted making a mistake. The American company has tricked its employees by email, giving them a Christmas bonus in the midst of the economic crisis. Problem, it was actually a computer security test. “We have learned that some employees were upset by our phishing attempt and deemed it cruel, and for that we apologized,” a spokesperson told Agence France-Presse. “Although the test mimicked real attempts (of computer attacks) that are taking place nowadays, we need to improve and show more empathy towards our employees,” added the company, based in Arizona.
About 500 employees clicked in mid-December on an email from GoDaddy announcing a Christmas bonus of $ 650 and asking them to fill out a form with some personal information. Two days later, a whole different message appeared in their inbox. “You are receiving this email because you failed our recent phishing test,” GoDaddy’s security chief wrote to them, local newspaper Copper Courier reported.
The technique of phishing, widely used by computer hackers, consists in sending emails pretending to be known interlocutors, with the objective of obtaining information allowing the infiltration of targeted computer systems. The initiative sparked an uproar on social media, as millions of Americans were hit hard by the economic crisis linked to the pandemic.
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