Security News > 2020 > September > Hundreds of Magento Stores Hacked Daily in Major Skimming Campaign
Thousands of Magento-powered online stores have been hacked over the past few days as part of a skimming campaign that has been described as the "Largest ever."
Sansec on Monday reported seeing nearly 2,000 Magento stores that have been compromised as part of this campaign since Friday - over 1,000 stores were hacked on Saturday, more than 600 on Sunday, and over 200 so far on Monday.
A majority of the impacted sites were powered by Magento 1, but some were running Magento 2.
"The previous record was 962 hacked stores in a single day in July last year," the company explained in a blog post.
"The massive scope of this weekend's incident illustrates increased sophistication and profitability of web skimming. Criminals have been increasingly automating their hacking operations to run web skimming schemes on as many stores as possible."