Code has been discovered siphoning credit card numbers from consumer technology retail website Newegg, according to security researchers from two cybersecurity companies. In reports published Wednesday by RiskIQ and Volexity, researchers discovered instances of code liked to the operators of Magecart, a group that has been behind a slew of recent, high-profile credit card number breaches. Thieves have been siphoning credit card data since Aug. 14, when a piece of Javascript was inserted into Newegg’s payment sites. That code pulled credit card numbers and sent them to a site with a similar URL — neweggstats[.]com. According to Volexity, the code wasn’t removed from the Newegg payment site until Tuesday. Newegg is an extremely popular retailer, ranking 161 on Alexa’s list of top websites in the U.S. According to SimilarWeb, the site receives 50 million visitors a month. “Over an entire month of skimming, we can assume this attack claimed a […]
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