Home Depot reveals 56 Million Customers at Risk

“The malware had not been seen previously in other attacks, according to Home Depot’s security partners,” Home Depot stated in the press release.

Home Depot said that the malware was on its devices from April to September, and has now been cleaned from its U.S. and Canadian networks and payment systems. Home Depot didn’t say how the hackers got the malware onto the devices.

To protect customer data until the malware was eliminated, any terminals identified with malware were taken out of service, and the company quickly put in place other security enhancements,” the statement said. “The hackers’ method of entry has been closed off, the malware has been eliminated from the company’s systems, and the company has rolled out enhanced encryption of payment data to all U.S. stores.”