Category Archives: hacking credit cards

Wawa Breach: Hackers Put 30 Million Stolen Payment Card Details for Sale

Remember the recent payment card breach at Wawa convenience stores?If you're among those millions of customers who shopped at any of 850 Wawa stores last year but haven't yet hotlisted your cards, it's high time to take immediate action.That's because hackers have finally put up payment card details of more than 30 million Wawa breach victims on sale at Joker's Stash, one of the largest

Interpol Arrests 3 Indonesian Credit Card Hackers for Magecart Attacks

The Indonesian National Police in a joint press conference with Interpol and cybersecurity firm Group-IB earlier today announced the arrest of three Magecart-style Indonesian hackers who had compromised hundreds of international e-commerce websites and stolen payment card details of their online shoppers.Dubbed 'Operation Night Fury,' the investigation was led by Interpol's ASEAN Cyber

Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested

Another week, another massive data breach.Capital One, the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer and banking institution, has recently suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants in the United States and 6 million in Canada.The data breach that occurred on March 22nd and 23rd this year allowed attackers to steal information of

In-Depth Analysis of JS Sniffers Uncovers New Families of Credit Card-Skimming Code

In a world that's growing increasingly digital, Magecart attacks have emerged as a key cybersecurity threat to e-commerce sites.Magecart, which is in the news a lot lately, is an umbrella term given to 12 different cyber criminal groups that are specialized in secretly implanting a special piece of code on compromised e-commerce sites with an intent to steal payment card details of their

Expedia’s Orbitz Says 880,000 Payment Cards Compromised in Security Breach

Chicago-based online travel booking company Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia, reveals that one of its old websites has been hacked, exposing nearly 880,000 payment card numbers of the people who made purchases online.The data breach incident, which was detected earlier this month, likely took place somewhere between October 2016 and December 2017, potentially exposing customers' information