Home Depot Upped Defense, but Hacker Moved Faster

Written By The USA Links on Saturday 13 September 2014 | 08:48


WSJ.com: US Business

Home Depot Upped Defense, but Hacker Moved Faster

Sept. 12, 2014 7:23 p.m. ET


In the weeks after a massive data theft at Target Corp. became public in December, senior executives at Home Depot Inc. assembled a task force at their headquarters in Atlanta to draw up a plan to avoid becoming a victim of a similar attack.


By January, the group had produced recommendations that included new technology to fully encrypt payment card data at the chain's 2,200 U.S. and Canadian stores. But it wasn't until April—after...





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