Security News > 2022 > June > Online gun shops in the US hacked to steal credit cards
Two two American gun shops, Rainier Arms and Numrich Gun Parts, that operate e-commerce sites have disclosed data breaches resulting from card skimmer infections on their sites.
Credit card skimmers are malicious JavaScript code either embedded on the sites or fetched from a remote resource by a seemingly innocuous element, such as a favicon.
The operators of these skimmers can steal credit card numbers, expiration dates, CVV codes, customer names, phone numbers, and addresses, which is all they need to perform unauthorized online purchases.
Ranier Arms, who operates on rainierarms.com, says they began receiving reports of unauthorized payment card activity of cards of its customers as early as December 2021.
Customers who made online purchases between those dates should consider their credit card details compromised and request a card replacement from your bank.
Having your credit or debit card details stolen is a direct threat to your financial integrity as threat actors are enabled to perform unauthorized purchases with your balance, but in this case, that's not the whole story.