Comment by paxys
1 hour ago
How is domain privacy relevant here? That only hides your email from public records. What if the attacker already knows it (as they did in this case)? Email address is quite literally something you are meant to share publicly. It is not a password.
I think their point was that if WHOIS data were hidden, a password reset request that relied on providing the email address would've been impossible. But since NC's account management allows visitors to provide just a domain name to generate an unlock email, domain privacy wouldn't be a protective layer here.
Registration info usually also includes a physical address and names.
i agree that's important to hide, but also irrelevant to preventing what happened here.
Seems pretty relevant to a social engineering attack to have more correct pieces of info to give to support.
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