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Florist loses $24,000 to hackers on Shopify
Dozens of overseas merchants on popular Canadian e-commerce platform also affected
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Ms Wendy Han, co-founder of online flower shop Floristique, said she discovered on Wednesday that hackers had entered its Shopify account and changed the shop's bank account details to their own. As a result, the sales proceeds went directly to the hackers' account instead.
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A florist here said her online shop, set up on popular e-commerce platform Shopify, was hacked last month, resulting in a loss of $24,000.
Checks by The Straits Times showed that dozens of other merchants around the world have had their accounts hacked as well. They posted about their experiences on online forums.
