Credit-card skimming group suspected of BA hack - RiskIQ
A tech security company has claimed the credit-card skimming group behind the attack on Ticketmaster was also responsible for the British Airways hack announced last week. Threat detection firm RiskIQ said that the BA hack, in which 380,000 customers’ data — including sensitive financial details — were stolen, was probably carried out by criminal group Magecart. It said the BA attack was “similar to the one levelled against Ticketmaster with one key difference: instead of compromising commonly used third-party functionality…Magecart operatives compromised the British Airways site directly”. According to RiskIQ, Magecart rewrote the BA’s sites code “to steal sensitive data that consumers enter into online payment forms”, rather than scooping up information directly from BA’s system. <br/>
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Credit-card skimming group suspected of BA hack - RiskIQ
A tech security company has claimed the credit-card skimming group behind the attack on Ticketmaster was also responsible for the British Airways hack announced last week. Threat detection firm RiskIQ said that the BA hack, in which 380,000 customers’ data — including sensitive financial details — were stolen, was probably carried out by criminal group Magecart. It said the BA attack was “similar to the one levelled against Ticketmaster with one key difference: instead of compromising commonly used third-party functionality…Magecart operatives compromised the British Airways site directly”. According to RiskIQ, Magecart rewrote the BA’s sites code “to steal sensitive data that consumers enter into online payment forms”, rather than scooping up information directly from BA’s system. <br/>
