Home Depot customers' private data is at risk...again
ATLANTA, Ga. —Your personal information may be at risk if you're a Home Depot customer.
According to the Consumerist on Friday, the Atlanta-based retail chain has been storing massive amounts of customer data on unencrypted, publicly available web pages, leaving it open to hackers and identity thieves.
Some customers' files were even findable through search engines like Google.
Up to 8,000 shoppers' personal information was stored in vulnerable Excel documents, which included some customers' photos and past purchases.
The leak did not compromise any financial data, such as credit or debit card numbers and bank account information.
There is no excuse for a billion dollar business being so lax with customers personal information, this is when you hope they have their identities stolen and thousands run up in bills in their names just so they know what it is like to have your personal information stolen. Further they should never ever need your full Social Security number. Your last name matched to the last 4 should be sufficient!
There is no excuse for a billion dollar business being so lax with customers personal information, this is when you hope they have their identities stolen and thousands run up in bills in their names just so they know what it is like to have your personal information stolen. Further they should never ever need your full Social Security number. Your last name matched to the last 4 should be sufficient!
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