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Hackers that compromised Ticketmaster blamed for British Airways security breach

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Dissent

Graeme Burton reports:

Researchers at security consultancy RiskIQ claim that British Airways was breached by the same group, dubbed Magecart, that compromised Ticketmaster earlier this year.

And Magecart is now so prolific that RiskIQ claims to be getting hourly alerts of new websites compromised by Magecart’s malicious JavaScript code. For British Airways, though, the group customised its JavaScript to evade detection.

Read more on Computing.co.uk.  Zack Whittaker also has more on TechCrunch.

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