Home Depot May Be Latest Data Breach Victim

Theft of credit card information may have begun this past spring at stores nationwide.

September 03, 2014

NEW YORK – According to a report from CNBC, Home Depot may be the latest retailer to have suffered a massive credit card breach, after a website reported that a large cache of stolen data had appeared on black market sites.

The report states that according to information first reported by Krebs on Security, the breach may have extended as far back as the spring of this year, potentially making the fallout even larger than Target's incident late last year, when information pertaining to tens of millions of customers was compromised. The breach may have taken place across all of Home Depot's U.S. stores.

Amid a rash of identity thefts that have laid claim to banks and retailers in recent months, Krebs on Security reported that the breach bore similar hallmarks to groups that hit P.F. Chang's, as well as Target and others.

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