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Hackers Steal Credit Card Data From Visitors of US Senate GOP Committee Website (krebsonsecurity.com)
pdclarry writes: While all of the recent news has been about hacking the Democratic National Committee, apparently the Republicans have also been hacked over many months (since March 2016). This was not about politics, however; it was to steal credit card numbers. Brian Krebs reports: "a report this past week out of The Netherlands suggests Russian hackers have for the past six months been siphoning credit card data from visitors to the web storefront of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). [...] If you purchased a 'Never Hillary' poster or donated funds to the NRSC through its website between March 2016 and the first week of this month [October 2016], there's an excellent chance that your payment card data was siphoned by malware and is now for sale in the cybercrime underground." Krebs says his information comes from Dutch researcher Willem De Groot, co-founder and head of security at Dutch e-commerce site byte.nl. The Republicans were not alone; theirs was just one of 5,900 e-commerce sites hacked by the same Russian actors. You can view De Groot's analysis of the malware planted on the NRSC's site and other services here. Krebs adds: "The NRSC did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but a cached copy of the site's source code from October 5, 2016 indicates the malicious code was on the site at the time (load this link, click 'view source' and then Ctrl-F for 'jquery-cloud.net')."
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The list of compromised eCommerce site had a bit of controversy surrounding it too. Github censored the list, as did Gitlab. However, Gitlab later restored the list:
https://gwillem.gitlab.io/2016/10/14/github-censored-research-data/
Take a close look at the people who run the GOP website. For decades they've been collecting email addresses and spamming the hell out of anyone that registers on the site. People behind the scenes running DNC and GOP have very low morals, they use email addresses like a commodity. I started receiving 3rd party spam only days after registering. They sold my email address to a handful of different companies without my consent. Any website that would do that normally would find themselves out of business pretty quick... because it's wrong and in some countries illegal (because it's wrong). If I had to do it over again I would have never registered with the GOP or any political website and I urge my friends not to do it. You might as well throw away your email address because you'll be bombarded by spam for years to come. With that in mind, I say take a look at the web developer as being a prime suspect. I equate their morality with that of a porn site, none at all.
The US Senate has and always will be bought and sold by the highest bidder anyway
I'm sure all the people who were enthusiastic about the DNC hacks will agree that it doesn't matter who did this. Only the information that's released matters. Absolutely no need to identify the perpetrators because they're doing a public a service by releasing information that would otherwise have remained hidden.
"We Open Governments"
You are welcome on my lawn.
DNC is Private. .org and the website looks like it is Private. All Government sites SHOULD BE .gov so there is no confusion; however, too many Government groups do not abide by the original rules of top level domains. Cannot trust the name of an organization to be accurate anymore.
Not sure about NRSC. The name implies it is Federal Government; however its website is
the state cards you
> Only the information that's released matters.
Well, yes, it doesn't matter who did it, but what they did--simple thievery--is generally considered wrong. Pay attention to their actions, ignore their words.
> Absolutely no need to identify the perpetrators because they're doing a public a service by releasing information that would otherwise have remained hidden.
Well, if they use this to expose Republican corruption, I'm all for it! If, instead, what they do is petty thievery, then I'm not sure how that's "releasing information." But it does say something about those who excuse it, no? Qui s'éxcusé s'accusé is something I've had to keep in mind a lot these days.
Anyhow, I have to wonder: are you for thievery or against exposing corruption? Perhaps both? If so, why? For myself, I'm for exposing all corruption. I'm against thievery. And I'm curious about those who do not share these views.
How she found the time to back the NRSC site I just don't know. I am so gosh darn upset.
Fool! Putin himself said we don't hack the Republicans.
It's only common sense, Dems have juicy gossip and salacious info, but Republicans have better credit.
This is more about skimming a web site than political. But these days if it happens to be a political related site its all political. Which means people develop a sense this was a attack on a political party rather than a opportunity for someone to gain access to credit card information. This seems the norm now as skimmers look to less secure sites to attack. Probably going to get worse as holidays get closer, just waiting for that big site to get hacked.
"a report this past week out of The Netherlands suggests Russian hackers have for the past six months been siphoning credit card data from visitors to the web storefront of the National Republican Senatorial Committee"
Where's the evidence that Russian hackers were responsible?
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