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Home Depot breach might impact 60M

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Dissent

Nicole Perlroth reports: Home Depot confirmed on Monday that hackers had broken into its in-store payments systems, in what could be the largest known breach of a retail company’s computer network. The retailer said the exact number of customers affected was still not clear. But a person briefed on the investigation said the total number…

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And we’re off and running, Tuesday edition

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Dissent

Reuters reports: At least five states have launched a joint probe into the data breach on the payment-card processing systems of Home Depot, even as the retailer works to determine the impact on its customers in the United States and Canada. The coordinated effort was disclosed on Tuesday, a day after Home Depot confirmed suspicions…

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In Wake of Confirmed Breach at Home Depot, Banks See Spike in PIN Debit Card Fraud

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Nearly a week after this blog first reported signs that Home Depot was battling a major security incident, the company has acknowledged that it suffered a credit and debit card breach involving its U.S. and Canadian stores dating back to April 2014. Home Depot was quick to assure customers and banks that no debit card PIN data was…

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Home Depot Confirms Data Breach

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Dissent

From their web site today: Last Tuesday, September 2, we disclosed that we were investigating a possible breach of our payment data systems. We want you to know that we have now confirmed that those systems have in fact been breached, which could potentially impact any customer that has used their payment card at our…

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Home Depot Hit By Same Malware as Target

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: The apparent credit and debit card breach uncovered last week at Home Depot was aided in part by a new variant of the same malicious software program that stole card account data from cash registers at Target last December, according to sources close to the investigation. […] A source close to the…

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A file in the wrong place led to discovery of CSU-East Bay’s breach

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Dissent

Karina Ioffee provides additional details on the CSU – East Bay breach reported yesterday: The intrusion on August 23, 2013 by an unknown person using malicious software was discovered August 11 during a routine security check by the university’s technology department, said Jeff Bliss, a university spokesman. Bliss said university IT workers found that there…

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