Fifty-Three Million Email Addresses Captured During Home Depot Data Breach
Fifty-three million email addresses were accessed when hackers breached Home Depot’s payment systems, the company said in a news release Thursday. Passwords to those email addresses weren’t breached, it said. Home Depot had disclosed that 56 million payment cards were…
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breached during an attack between April and September (see 1409190084). “Criminals used a third-party vendor's user name and password to enter the perimeter of Home Depot's network,” it said. “These stolen credentials alone did not provide direct access to the company's point-of-sale devices,” said Home Depot. “The hackers then acquired elevated rights that allowed them to navigate portions of Home Depot's network and to deploy unique, custom-built malware on its self-checkout systems in the U.S. and Canada.”