This is one of the reasons that traditional investors and big investors are afraid to enter this market. Large-scale attacks by hackers on websites, trading platforms, to steal assets Cryptocurrency is always an obsession for investors. We need to have a solution against hackers, this market is very potential but it does not attract many people, because it is too risky.
I really don't think they're too concerned with hackers. They target everything anyway. There's really no solution to them except by making their activities unprofitable through protecting ourselves.
In this case, installing a script blocker on your browser (like NoScript for Firefox or ScriptSafe on Chrome) likely would have protected you. You should install one either way as they also stop stuff like malvertising.
My assumption is that Statcounter was embedded via Javascript onto Gate.IOs website. As statcounter was exploited, so was Gate.IOs website (script probably just watched for access to withdrawal page and then attempted to act as the client)
On a side note: The whole 700,000 websites hacked claim is somewhat disingenuous though. Yes, technically, 700,000 websites were "exploited", but the exploit was only targeted at 1 website, and probably didn't even effect any of the other websites at all (although further analysis would probably be required). Hacked somewhat insinuates data losses / exploitation at all websites, which obviously isn't exactly true.
Yeah, it just means 700k websites loaded the script. The malicious part doesn't kick in unless it's loaded on gate.io. This isn't as bad as it's being painted to be.