Hackers try to con the wrong mom. Knitting circle not the same
Found on CNet on Saturday, 30 January 2016
Char, noticed the padlock icon -- the way your computer tells you your connection is private -- was missing from the top left corner of a shopping website she was visiting. Worried, she got in touch her son.
He took a look at the code behind the suspicious website and it turned out hackers behind a Russian website were receiving a copy of everything his mom typed into the checkout form. That included her credit card information, which Char immediately canceled.
The article is quite misleading, making it sound like SSL magically makes the code secure. If the site got hacked, the code itself can be altered and of course this will run via SSL too.