{"id":16633,"date":"2014-09-24T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clekis.com\/?p=16633"},"modified":"2014-09-24T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:45:19","slug":"home-depot-security-breach-leads-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themediabeast.com\/resources\/home-depot-security-breach-leads-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Depot Security Breach Leads to Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clekis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/home-depot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16634\" src=\"http:\/\/clekis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/home-depot-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"home depot\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit card numbers hacked from the home improvement retailer are being used in fraudulent transactions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(REUTERS) Data breach at home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc has led to fraudulent transactions across the United States, draining cash from customer bank accounts, the Wall Street Journal said.<\/p>\n<p>Criminals are using stolen card information to buy prepaid cards, electronics and even groceries, the Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/Zclvlt\">said<\/a>, citing people familiar with the matter. Financial institutions also are stepping up efforts to block the transactions by rejecting them if they appear unusual, the daily said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Home Depot its payment systems were breached and said some 56 million payment cards were likely compromised in a cyberattack at its stores, suggesting the hacking attack at the home improvement chain was larger than last year\u2019s unprecedented <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2013\/12\/19\/target-security-breach-likely-to-be-highly-sophisticated-organized-crime\/\">breach<\/a> at Target Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Home Depot had said customers who shopped at its stores as far back as April were exposed, suggesting the breach extended through the busy summer season.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe your Home Depot account information may have been a part of the breach, please call us immediately 800-797-LAW1 (5291)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article originated from fortune.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit card numbers hacked from the home improvement retailer are being used in fraudulent transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116,258],"tags":[435,436,438],"class_list":["post-16633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-blog","category-consumer-alert","tag-credit-card","tag-home-depot","tag-security-breach"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - 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