Morning Scan: Home Depot Breach Affects 56M; Santander's Punish...

09/19/14

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Reach of Home Depot Breach: Home Depot confirmed that its data breach affected about 56 million customers, making it larger than the Target breach during the last holiday season. The home-improvement retailer also said the "unique, custom-built malware" used in the breach has been eliminated from its networks. The malware used in the Home Depot breach wasn't present in attacks on other retailers. Home Depot did not disclose the attackers' point of...

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