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.
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