Why is it an urgent scam that needs to rectified? because through the scam EIG and hostgator are perpetrating they are making millions of websites vulnerable to phishing and viruses around the world, which means allowing the compromise of personal information and credit cards of millions of people worldwide.
The scam that hostgator.com has been perpetrating is far reaching, this hostgator.com scam started when they were purchased by parent company EIG in 2014, before that time hostgator had automatic virus and malware removal tools and allowing cpanel virus plugins.
Since EIG has purchased hostgator and many other hosting providers, they have removed these free and optimal virus and malware protections for website creators who have purchased hostgators shared servers, unless a costly malware protection plan is purchased by sitelock.com a company also owned by EIG to the cost of $1000 USD per year, which many website creators are opting out of because of the high cost, hostgator is leaving millions of websites vulnerable and susceptible to viruses and malware which is then infecting the computers of millions worldwide.
The SEC & ACC have been contacted about this far reaching issue but have yet to comment.
There are thousands of posts littering the internet from people who know about this issue and are trying to expose it, for example the below detail post explaining this issue have comments daily from website owners who are experiencing this dangerous problem created by EIG and hostgator.com
https://www.hermesthemes.com/scam-alert-hostgator-sitelock-malware-extortion/
