Home Depot verified yesterday that the breach of their systems put roughly 56 million unique payment cards in jeopardy considerably more in comparison to the Target data breach.
The retailer unveiled on Sept. 2 that hackers had been on its systems since April. The Target breach which led to the loss of 40 million cards and the personal data of 70 million individuals, held up for three weeks throughout the 2013 holiday shopping season.
Within a statement, Home Depot declared the investigation of the breach carried out by law enforcement and security firms FishNet Security and Symantec, figured the hackers used custom-built malware to go into its networks and payment systems, aka Point of Sale systems (POS).
