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A Hacker’s Holiday: How Retailers Can Avoid Black Friday Cyber Threats

November 13, 2020

In November 2019, Macy’s confirmed the presence of credit card-skimming Magecart malware on its checkout and wallet pages just as Black Friday and the holiday shopping season approached. Macy’s indicated that the malware allowed a third party to capture customers’ data on the pages if they input their credit card information and clicked “place order.”

This potentially enabled cybercriminals to access names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses along with the users’ credit card numbers, security codes, and expiration dates. A Macy’s cybersecurity team removed the code by Oct. 15 and announced the incident a few weeks later.

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