Home Depot Data Breach

Home depot has taken another step to move on from its colossal 2014 data breach which involved hackers stealing email or credit card information from more than 50 million customers by infiltrating.

Home depot data breach. 2 after it received warnings of unusual payment card activity from financial services firms and law. Much like the target data breach home depot s data breach occurred through the point of sale pos systems. It is the largest retail data breach involving a point of sale system that has been reported to date.

One major reason for the data breach was the practice of entering credit card numbers directly into computers at the service desk and pro desk and in specialty departments including flooring kitchen cabinets appliances and millwork rather than using pos credit card terminals directly. Home depot relating to home depot customers whose credit or debit card information or email information was stolen as a result of a data breach that was first disclosed in september 2014 home depot data breach. If the cards currently being sold by criminals are in fact the cards stolen from home depot then the breach likely exposed the customer s name card number and expiration date.

Home depot has revealed more details about the extent of the data breach it suffered this summer noting that 53 million email addresses were stolen along with the previously disclosed 56 million credit and debit card details. A settlement has been proposed in lawsuits against the home depot inc. Home depot announced that 56 million credit cards were compromised in a breach that lasted from april to september 2014 making this latest retail breach larger than target s 40 million card breach.

And the goods were lifted from its network due to stolen credentials from a third party vendor. The practice was stopped and home depot offered a year of free credit monitoring through allclearid for any customers who requested it. Home depot was the latest in the chain of large companies under a cyber attack targeted at their payment terminals where a security breach left approximately 56 million credit and debit card.

The hackers were then able to use the zero day vulnerability in windows to pivot directly into the home depot corporate network. The home depot data breach was massive. The company had a data breach in september 2014.