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Infowars.com, the website of controversial Alex Jones, has recently experienced the affects of the recently popular magecart payment card skimming malware. The malware was injected into Alex Jones’ web shop where he sells survival gear and nutritional supplements.

The malware was found by cyber security consultant, William de Groot, who conducts routine internet scans to detect magecart infections, which are often found on Magento e-commerce software. Magecart works as a JavaScript malware that scraps customers payment card information and sends it to an alternative server than the one supporting the website.

In addition to claiming this attack to be an act of industrial and political sabotage, InfoWars says that around 1,600 customers may have been affected. Some of those were returning customers, who may have not needed to enter their personal and card details again, potentially saving them from the malware.

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If you’d like to read more about the data breach on Infowars, click here.

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