Home Depot Halloween phish gives users a fright, not a freebie

We received a timely phishing email pretending to come from Home Depot. It claimed we’d won a Gorilla Carts dump cart that’s a sort of four-wheeled wheelbarrow for anyone unfamiliar—and said it was just one click away. It wasn’t. The whole image in the email was clickable, and it hid plenty of...

An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. Moscow resident Mikhail Shefel , who confirmed using the Rescator...

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the states revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a...

Alleged Home Depot Data Breach: IntelBroker Leaks 22,000 Employee Data

By Waqas Another day, another data breach by IntelBroker hacker targeting a US-based giant! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Alleged Home Depot Data Breach: IntelBroker Leaks 22,000 Employee Data...

Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string "Rescator," which also...

Home Depot Confirms Data Breach in Order Confirmation SNAFU

Home Depot has exposed the private order confirmations of hundreds of Canadian consumers, containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, order details and partial credit-card information. After customers began reporting that they had received hundreds of emails from the home-improvement...

Is Black Friday a Thing of the Past? Not for Mobile

I recently ordered a new Weber grill from The Home Depot. When it was delivered, I discovered it was the floor model, and it wasn't the perfect grill I had anticipated. I called the local store, and -- long story short -- my friends at The Home Depot gave me a significant discount for not letting...

Wawa Breach May Have Affected More Than 30 Million Customers

A recent dump of payment card information being sold on a popular online fraud marketplace suggests that more than 30 million payment cards may have been affected by a malware attack and data breach at Wawa convenience stores and gas stations that was first revealed in December. The Joker’s Stash...

Home Depot Agrees $19.5 Million To Settle 2014 Breach

Home Depot agreed this week to pay $19.5 million to compensate the 40 million cardholders it said were impacted by a massive 2014 data breach. As part of a proposed settlement by Home Depot, it admits no wrongdoing or liability in the breach, according to court filings with the US District Court...

Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked

If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service. T-Mobile’s credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15...

Podcast: 2014 Year in Review

Mike Mimoso and Dennis Fisher look back on the crazy year that was in security, including the big Internet-wide bugs such as Heartbleed and Shellshock, the Home Depot and Sony breaches and what lessons we learned in 2014.​ READ: 2014: A Specious Odyssey SEE: Revisiting Threatpost’s 10 Most Popula...

Home Depot Breach Cost Company $43 Million in Third Quarter

The massive Home Depot data breach disclosed earlier this fall involved the theft of 56 million credit and debit card numbers, and now the company has revealed that the incident so far has cost it $43 million. The costs are the result of both the investigation into the data breach as well as the...

Backoff Malware Identified as Culprit in Dairy Queen Breach

Backoff apparently has a sweet tooth. International Dairy Queen on Thursday confirmed that 395 of its Dairy Queen locations nationwide were breached by hackers using the dangerous point-of-sale malware. One Orange Julius location was also involved in the breach. The hackers were able to access...

76M Households, 7M Businesses Impacted in JPMorgan Chase Breach

A securities filing on Thursday revealed that up to 76 million households and seven million small businesses, far more than initially thought, were implicated in the cyber attack that hit JPMorgan Chase over the summer, making it one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history. The New York-base...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss All Things Apple Security, Home Depot and Microsoft

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk abut the crazy news of the last couple of weeks, the Apple privacy and Apple Pay announcements, the details of the Home Depot breach and the end of the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing unit. Download: digitalunderground167.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

'The Home Depot' Data Breach Put 56 Million Payment Cards at Risk

Home Depot, the nation’s largest home improvement retailer, announced on Thursday that a total of 56 million unique payment cards were likely compromised in a data breach at its stores, suggesting that the data breach on Home improvement chain was larger than the Target data breach that occurred...

Home Depot Data Breach Put 56 Million Cards at Risk

Home Depot confirmed this afternoon that the breach of its systems put approximately 56 million unique payment cards at risk, considerably more than the Target data breach. The giant home retailer disclosed on Sept. 2 that hackers had been on its network since April; by comparison, the Target...

Home Depot Data Breach Confirmed

Home Depot today finally confirmed that its payment systems have been breached, but a number of crucial questions remain unanswered by the giant home improvement retailer. In a statement released late this afternoon, Home Depot said customers using payment cards at its U.S. and Canada locations,...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Apple iCloud Mess, Potential Home Depot Breach

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Apple iCloud mess, why the company waited until now to extend its 2FA system to the cloud, and the fallout from the possible Home Depot data breach. Download: digitalunderground165.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Home Depot Data Breach Prompts Look at Backoff PoS Malware

Naturally, early speculation on the malware culprit behind the possible Home Depot data breach has leaned toward Backoff. The point-of-sale malware, one of many used against payment terminals, has recently been blamed for more than 1,000 attacks on businesses, prompting the U.S. Secret Service to...