The IT Nerd

Brian Krebs who hit the big time last year by uncovering the now infamous Target credit card hack might have just done it again. This time via his blog he’s reporting the following:

Multiple banks say they are seeing evidence that Home Depot stores may be the source of a massive new batch of stolen credit and debit cards that went on sale this morning in the cybercrime underground. Home Depot says that it is working with banks and law enforcement agencies to investigate reports of suspicious activity.

Lovely. Now Home Depot is investigating, and affected customers will be contacted, but this does not give me the warm fuzzies at all. That’s because this hack may have occurred in late April or early May and could encompass all 2,200 of the company’s stores in the U.S. So not only is there a very long lag time between the hack and when it was discovered, but it also potentially is bigger than the Target hack.

Scary.

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