By Anthony Berrios
Blog Post #3
2/11/2020
An early domain invester by the name of Mike O’Connor got ahold of many popular online domains. One of these called Corp.com is currently up for sale. Unlike many domains, Corp.com contains years of sensitive information including passwords, emails, and other proprietary data belonging to thousands of systems at major companies around the world. Now in O’Connor’s old age at 70, he is looking to sell this sensitive domain. This could be a potential problem for a couple of reasons.
First off, whoever purchases this domain will have access to a ton of private information and passwords to who knows how many confidential accounts. There is really no way to tell how important these accounts are without being or knowing O’Connor but one thing is for sure, big companies could, or should be worried about this sale. O’Connor already publicly stated that he hopes that Microsoft purchases his domain but obviously there is no way to insure that this would happen. If criminal groups or foreign countries that are not our allies see this domain up for sale, there is a chance that they could potentially buy it if they believe they could take advantage of the information that they would get access to from this domain.
This is important to pc security because domains are sold everyday but it’s not everyday that domains with sensitive information and possible privacy infractions is openly sold to the public. Since this is a breaking story I think it will be interesting to see how this sale of this domain plays out.
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