DigiNotar

DigiNotar BV
Company typeBesloten vennootschap, publicly traded parent company
IndustryCertificate authority
Founded1998 (1998)
FounderDick Batenburg
Defunct20 September 2011 (2011-09-20)
FateBankruptcy
Headquarters
Beverwijk
,
Netherlands
Number of employees
50 (2011)
Parent
  • N/A (until 2010)
  • VASCO (2010-2011)
Websitediginotar.nl at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-04-27)

DigiNotar BV was a Dutch certificate authority from 1998 to 2011. It was acquired in January 2011 by VASCO and subsequently declared bankrupt in September of the same year. The company was hacked in June 2011 and it issued hundreds of fraudulent certificates, some of which were used for man-in-the-middle attacks on Iranian Gmail users.

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