The Infowars Store, the merchandise site of controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has been hacked and details of customers purchasing items on the site stolen.

The discovery, made by Dutch security researcher Willem de Groot and first reported by ZDNet Wednesday, involved a Magecart infection. That’s the same malware behind the hack of Cathay Pacific Airway Ltd., British Airways, Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Newegg Inc.

A Magecart attack typically sees an injection of scripts designed to steal sensitive data that consumers enter into online payment forms on e-commerce websites directly or through compromised third-party suppliers used by these sites.

In the case of the Infowars Store, de Groot found the hijacking script hidden inside a modified block of Google Analytics code. The code scraped all content found inside the checkout form fields on the site every 1.5 seconds and then sent the data to a remote server. DeGroot noted that the Magecart code may have been active on the site only for 24 hours before it was taken down.

Alex Jones confirmed the hack, saying that up to 1,600 customers may have been affected and that they have all been contacted. But then the story got somewhat weird.

“This criminal hack is an act of industrial and political sabotage,” Jones said in a statement. “The corporate press is claiming that a Magento plugin to the shopping cart was the point of entry, but that is not true. Infowarsstore.com has never installed that plugin. We use some of the top internet security companies in the nation and they have reported to us that this is a zero-day hack probably carried out by leftist stay-behind networks hiding inside US intelligence agencies.”

In a video on Infowars, Jones mentioned former President Barack Obama and the “communist Chinese” as somehow linked to the hack before mentioning that banks are like “Swiss cheese” and “full of hackers.”

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