January 4, 2015

Just as the dust was beginning to settle from last year’s massive data breach at Target stores that exposed about 40M credit and debit cards, the industry is reeling from an even larger breach. Home Depot stores have confirmed that about 56M payment cards have been exposed through an attack on their POS system during April-September 2014. The Home Depot credit card breach has, according to Home Depot, only affected customers who purchased in-store and not those who purchased online.