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

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

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https://thenextweb.com/security/2018/09/12/hackers-used-22-line-code-stole-british-airways-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.

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

Sep 12, 2018, 7:22am UTC
https://thenextweb.com/security/2018/09/12/hackers-used-22-line-code-stole-british-airways-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.