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It took hackers just 22 lines of code to steal British Airways’ customer data

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech It took hackers just 22 lines of code to steal British Airways’ customer data

Last week, British Airways acknowledged that its website had been hacked – leading to 380,000 customers‘ data being compromised. It seems like it wasn’t too difficult either: Cybersecurity firm RiskIQ has found out that it took hackers just 22 lines of code to get a hold of the data. RiskIQ speculated that a group called Magecart is behind this attack; it was responsible for the TicketMaster UK hack earlier this year, which affected the data of 400,000 customers. Magecart has traditionally stolen data by injecting a malicious script into payment forms. “The Magecart actors have been active since 2015 and have never retreated from their…

This story continues at The Next Web

Authored by Piyush Suthar
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