The Home Depot Data Breach
Between April and September 2014, The Home Depot, the largest home improvement retail chain in North America, suffered one of the largest payment system breaches in retail history.
Exposed Data Types
5- Payment card information
- Full names
- Billing information
- Email addresses
- Financial transactions
About This Breach
Attackers used compromised credentials from a third-party vendor to breach the corporate network, deploying custom RAM-scraping malware across thousands of Windows-based point-of-sale (POS) self-checkout registers. The undetected intrusion compromised approximately 56 million payment card numbers and 53 million unique customer email addresses, resulting in over $160 million in legal settlements and security remediation costs.
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