Canada’s largest alcohol retailer infected with card skimming malware twice since December

On January 12, Canadian alcohol retail giant LCBO announced that an “unauthorized party embedded malicious code” onto its website in order to steal information from customers in the process of checking out. Over five days in January, they wrote, customers “may have had their information compromised.”

In fact, the infection was one of several to target LCBO customers in the last month, including an attack that lasted for more than a week that the company has not publicly acknowledged.

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