Julie Creswell and Nicole Perlroth report:
The risks were clear to computer experts inside Home Depot: The home improvement chain, they warned for years, might be easy prey for hackers.
But despite alarms as far back as 2008, Home Depot was slow to raise its defenses, according to former employees.
Read more on NY Times. One of the more startling revelations in the piece, I think:
Then, in 2012, Home Depot hired a computer engineer to help oversee security at its 2,200 stores. But this year, as hacks struck other retailers, that engineer was sentenced to four years in prison for deliberately disabling computers at the company where he previously worked.