Home Depot Finally Confirms Its Payment System Was Hacked For Months

Remember that “suspicious activity” that Home Depot was looking into last week?

Six days later, the company has at last publicly confirmed that the “suspicious activity” was a breach of their payments system. Credit card data was exposed, though Home Depot is quick to note that PINs were not. If you used a credit card at Home Depot in the past 4-5 months, you should consider it stolen.

Here’s what we know so far:

• The breach “only” affected its U.S. and Canadian stores… though “only” is a strange word to use, given that would account for the majority of Home Depot’s 2,266 locations.


• HomeDepot.com transactions were not affected


• Home Depot has confirmed earlier reports that the breach was in place going back as far as April


• The company will offer credit monitoring to anyone who has used a card at one of their stores since April

If you used a credit card at Home Depot any time since April, you’re going to want to call up your bank ASAP to get a new card shipped out sooner than later. While you might not be on the hook for any fraudulent charges that might occur, getting them wiped out is still a pretty huge hassle.

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