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2016 Postmortem

Cattledog

(5,919 posts) Tue Oct 18, 2016, 04:09 AM Oct 2016

A website used to fund the campaigns of Republican senators was infected with malware that for more than six months collected donors' personal information, including full names, addresses, and credit card data."

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/hacked-republican-website-skimmed-donor-credit-cards-for-6-months/

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Hacked Republican website skimmed donor credit cards for 6 months (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 2016 OP

Let's face it True Dough Oct 2016 #1

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1. Let's face it

Tue Oct 18, 2016, 04:13 AM

Oct 2016

even if it hadn't been hacked, all the donors' money would have been going to waste.