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Saturday 20 September 2014

Home Depot breach totals: 56 million credit cards exposed, $62 million in losses

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Lots of people who speculated about the source of the credit card data breach at the Home Depot turned out to be wrong.
But those who suggested that Home Depot's breach might end up bigger than Target's turned out to be spot on.
As the home improvement retail giant revealed in a statement on Thursday, 18 September 2014, 56 million unique payment cards were compromised in the attack.
The attack on Target in late 2013 resulted in the theft of 40 million credit and debit card numbers, although Target also managed to lose 70 million other customer records.read more

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