Home Depot Breach Bigger Than Targets Wall Street Journal (09/18/14) Sidel, Robin A five-month-long cyberattack on payment terminals at Home Depot stores left 56 million payment cards potentially compromised, making it larger than last years attack at Target, the home improvement retailer said Sept. 18. Home Depot also said that the malware used in the attack has been eliminated from its systems. The incident further illustrates how the payment systems of U.S. retailers are vulnerable to hackers. This attack, like many recent retail hackings, was the result of malware that had been inserted into the companies networks and used to skim payment-card data. In the Home Depot case, criminals used what the retailer called unique, custom-built malware that had not been present in other attacks. Home Depot is now using an encryption system that scrambles card information to make it unreadable. Meanwhile, some large card issuers, such as JPMorgan Chase and Capital One, have begun to plan to replace debit and credit cards that may have been exposed in the attack.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:30:12 +0000
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