Police: Home Depot Employees Arrested for Over $200,000 in Credit Card Fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Two men who worked at a Hempstead Home Depot stole more than $200,000 from the store by using stolen credit card information to purchase gift cards, police said. According to detectives, Frederick D. Harris Jr, 22, of Baldwin, and Steve D. Kerr, 21, of Springfield Gardens, […]
Hackers broadcast porn on TV screens at Brazil bus depot
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans SAO PAULO (AFP) – Hackers infiltrated the travel information video screens at a Brazilian bus station and replaced arrival and departure times with hard-core porn. The sex footage ran for 15 minutes Friday evening at the Boqueirao station in the southern city of Curitiba. The depot […]
Home Depot Ranks Higher in Cyber Defense Than Pentagon Contractors
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans After revelations that a compromised contractor login abetted a grandiose breach of federal employees’ background investigations, now comes word that Defense Department suppliers score below hacked retailers when it comes to cyber defense. The new industry-developed cyber rankings–and the recent Office of Personnel Management hack–raise questions […]
Home Depot hackers used vendor log-on to steal data, e-mails
Hackers used a vendor’s stolen log-on credentials to penetrate Home Depot’s computer network and install custom-built malware that stole customer payment-card data and e-mail addresses, the retailer announced Thursday. The malware, which had not been seen in other data thefts, […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post […]
Home Depot: Hackers also stole 53M email addresses
NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers stole 53 million email addresses in addition to customers’ card data, Home Depot said Thursday. The nation’s largest home improvement chain had disclosed the massive, months-long breach of 56 million debit and credit cards in […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post […]
Home Depot hack could lead to $3 billion in fake charges
A recent hacker attack on Home Depot (HD) could result in up to $3 billion in fraudulent charges, according to credit protection firm BillGuard. BillGuard said losses will be at least $2 billion, based on an analysis of what is […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post […]
Home Depot Investigates a Possible Data Breach
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Home Depot said on Tuesday that it was investigating a report that customer credit and debit card data was stolen from its systems and put up for sale online. The retailer issued a statement after Brian Krebs, an independent security […] For more information go to […]
Home Depot employee charged in bomb extortion plot
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification A 50-year-old Long Island man was charged with trying to extort $2 million from home improvement retailer Home Depot using pipe bombs planted in a store in Huntington, NY. Daniel Sheehan has been charged with extortion and use of a destructive device in an alleged plan to coerce the […]