Matt Townsend provides this update: Home Depot Inc. (HD:US), the largest home-improvement chain, has enlistedSymantec Corp. (SYMC:US) and FishNet Security Inc. to help investigate a suspected data breach after learning of the possibility earlier this week. Home Deport is working with the companies and other top information-security firms to review the situation, Paula Drake, a spokeswoman for the…
Home Depot, Other Retailers Get Social Engineered
Kelly Jackson Higgins writes: In the end, it may have been a foreshadowing of sorts: The team assigned to squeeze potentially sensitive information from Home Depot employees in cold calls during this year’s Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) competition at DEF CON 22 won the famed contest. The social engineering competition held last month…
NY: Florida School District reports security breach after students share class schedules online
News12 reports: The Florida School District reported a student security breach Wednesday after some students posted copies of their official class schedules online. When students at the S.S. Seward Institute received their schedules over the weekend, school officials say some of them shared the schedules online. In addition to classes, the paperwork also had student…
Target Wants Banks’ Claims Tossed In Data Breach MDL
This is where lawyers earn their keep: Target Corp. urged a Minnesota federal judge on Tuesday to toss a consolidated class action over the company’s massive data breach, arguing that the bank plaintiffs cannot claim negligence because they do not have a direct relationship with Target. Target argues that under state law, merchants aren’t liable…
Update: Nearly All U.S. Home Depot Stores Hit – Krebs
Brian Krebs reports: New data gathered from the cybercrime underground suggests that the apparent credit and debit card breach at Home Depot involves nearly all of the company’s stores across the nation. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
PA: Identity Theft Ring Leader Sentenced To Long Prison Term
Evens Claude, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced on Friday, August 29, 2014, to 232 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, bank fraud, access device fraud, counterfeit currency fraud, and conspiracy. U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois also ordered Claude to pay $609,210 in restitution. Claude represented himself at sentencing. Between 2008 and…