Home Depot Hackers Used Password Stolen From Vendor Hackers got into Home Depots systems by using a username and password they had stolen from a vendor in a massive data breach that the retailer says now appears to be wider than it thought, with 53 million email addresses exposed in addition to the 56 million credit cards it previously had said were exposed. The finding, which comes after more than two months of investigations by the company, law enforcement agents and hundreds of security personnel, shows the retailer fell victim to the same type of infiltration tactics as Target, where hackers gained access through a refrigeration contractors electronic billing account and then made their way across Targets networks to its payment terminals.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:50:44 +0000
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