Some Republican senators' fundraising was hacked and has been sending money to Russia for months

From Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/17/1583721/-Some-Republican-senators-fundraising-was-hacked-and-has-been-sending-money-to-Russia-for-months?detail=facebook

For the last six months, NRSC.org collected campaign donations for Republican senators through their website that was infected with malware. According toArsTechnica, this malware collected all of the data from people donating on the site and quietly skimmed money off of those cards.

The storefront for the National Republican Senatorial Committee was one of about 5,900 e-commerce platforms recently found to be compromised by malicious skimming software, according to researcher and developer Willem de Groot. He said the NSRC site was infected from March 16 to October 5 by malware that sent donors' credit card data to attacker-controlled domains. One of the addresses—jquery-code[dot]su—is hosted by dataflow[dot]su, a service that provides so-called bulletproof hosting to money launderers, sellers of synthetic drugs and stolen credit card data, and other providers of illicit wares or services.

De Groot said it's not clear how many credit cards were compromised over the six months the site was infected. Based on data from TrafficEstimates, the NRSC site received about 350,000 visits per month. Assuming 1 percent of those visits involved the visitor using a credit card, that would translate to 3,500 transactions per month, or about 21,000 transactions over the time the site was compromised. Assuming a black market value of $4 to $21 per compromised card, the crooks behind the hack may have generated revenue of $600,000.

If you donated to or know someone who donated to Senate Republicans this past half year, you are going to want to check into that credit card or bank statement. The fact that Russia is most likely to blame for the DNC hack that has been troubling the Democratic Party the past few months and that Russia is also ripping off Republicans is the kind poetic justice you only find in comic books these days.

You can watch Willem de Groot explain how this hack works.