Hackers broke into the retail chain The Home Depot payment system. This was reported to the company's website.
The Home Depot did not provide information on how much credit card fell into the hands of cyber criminals. The publication of The New York Times, the available information indicates that there may be around 60 million stolen credit card data.
The company reports that may have been stolen crucial information about the people who have visited the network of stores in the USA and Canada from April this year until the beginning of September. Attack touch him e-mail. store customers as well as customers in Mexico.
The New York Times notes that, prior to The Home Depot executed attack could become the largest in history. The previous record was owned retail chain Target, which is 2013. December steal data on 40 million. credit cards.
Source notes that The Home Depot has been very ineffectively: retail network data theft overlooked fact even 5 months, while Target incident recorded after just three weeks.
Journal predicted that hacking into financial trading networks / information systems will continue. The hackers had enough time to study the payment mechanisms and access to computers that run these systems. Hackers have managed to set up systems to install malicious programs, which did not detect the virus.
United States National Security Department, a recent study shows that about 1,000 businesses in the territory to the United States to have a device with malware, and it completely overlooked. The New York Times identified the victims as potential delivery service UPS companies Neiman Marcus, Goodwill and many others.
Interviewed experts believe that the attack on the trade networks of their own group, which is responsible for the burglary in Eastern Europe, but refused to reveal more details.
Report on the American retail chain system to crack appeared at about the same time as the announcement of the leaked login to Mail.ru and Yandex account (stolen about 6 million. Passwords and usernames). According to RT.com, and hit Gmail users - connections to steal approximately 4.93 million. accounts, of which about 60 per cent. is acting.
