National Republican Senatorial Committee’s website was just one of 5,900 sites hit by the attacks. Attackers often hunt for online stores running popular e-commerce platforms such as Magento. The attackers had been harvesting credit card data between March 16 through Oct. 5 – a long exposure window that means many shoppers could have been hit. When such code is planted on a website, it is hard to detect and nearly impossible to trace the thieves, says Wilillem de Groot. De Groot: “The villains could have made roughly $600K on this store alone””]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/gop-website-among-thousands-hit-by-malware-a-9459

