Reuters has today revealed that internet giant VeriSign was hacked repeatedly during 2010. The company’s senior management team were not informed by IT team about the security breaches until September 2011. The firm believes that the attacks did not breach the servers that support the firms Domain Name System (DNS) network, but has not ruled anything out. At least the company is not initiating a cover-up and has come clean about the breaches even though it is unclear as to the scope of the hacks and what data was exposed.”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/02/verisign-hacked/