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Anthony Spadafora

Over 850,000 people hit with online shopping scam that steals credit cards — how to stay safe

A hacker typing quickly on a keyboard.

Even though shopping online has now become the norm, you still need to be careful when buying products from lesser-known stores, as doing so could lead to hackers stealing your credit card information.

Case in point, the German cybersecurity firm SRLabs recently uncovered a massive network of 75,000 fake online shops called ‘BogusBazaar’, which over the course of three years, tricked more than 850,000 people into buying $50 million worth of fake goods.

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