Hacked Is The New Black For Retailers. Here's What You Need To Know
It has not been a pretty week for Home Depot. Last Tuesday security researcher Brian Krebs reported that there were signs of a massive breach at the retailer and then later, that the breach looked to be especially large, impacting just about all of the retailer’s stores across the country.
Home Depot said it was investigating the “unusual activity.”
Experts didn’t wait for the results. The breach has been dubbed another Target or likely worse. Home Depot’s breach, according to Krebs, appears to have run from May to August, while Target’s was a mere month. Even so Target’s breach affected an estimated 110 million people. Consumers aren’t waiting to see what Home Depot has to say either. On late Thursday a class action lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Georgia against the retailer over the potential data breach.
