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Saturday, September 20, 2014

How to protect yourself after the Home Depot breach

Home Depot has issued a statement today that provides more details about their recent breach, as well as indicating that the malware used by the attackers has now been removed from their systems. This breach appears to be even larger than Target’s, as it exposed payment information for 56 million customers in their US and Canada locations. The full extent of what data was lost has not yet been determined.
This breach apparently began in April, and continued until September. If you shopped in a Home Depot store during that period of time, you may be wondering how to identify or mitigate problems caused by this breach. Here are a few steps you can take now:


How to protect yourself after the Home Depot breach

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