Home Depot Says Hackers Grabbed 53 Million Email Addresses

wiredmikey writes Home Depot said on Thursday that hackers managed to access 53 million customer email addresses during the massive breach that was disclosed in September when the retail giant announced that 56 million customer payment cards were compromised in a cyber attack. The files containing the stolen email addresses did not contain passwords, payment card information or other sensitive personal information, the company said. The company also said that the hackers acquired elevated rights that allowed them to navigate portions of Home Depot's network and to deploy unique, custom-built malware on its self-checkout systems in the U.S. and Canada.

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Home Depot is getting off cheap

[hamjudo]

TFA says that Home Depot expects to pay "$62 million this year to recover from the incident", referring to exposing the details on 56 million credit cards. That's only $1.11 per exposed card. I used a credit card there during the period, so my Credit Union sent me a new card, plus two other physical letters about the incident. That had to cost them more than $1.11 per affected customer.

Re:Who Loses Their Executive IT Position?

[greenwow]

> moving of data,

If FDR hadn't fought so hard in 1935 against adding a check digit, monitoring for SSNs over the network would be so much easier. Canadian SIN have check digits so a couple of times we were able to detect suspicious file transfers. Yes, the US did a great job getting 25 million SSNs issued within three months, but we're still paying for that decision.