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Home Depot breach put 56 million payment cards at risk, company says

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The breach of Home Depot’s payment systems may have compromised 56 million payment cards as a result of malware that has since been eliminated, the company said Thursday.

Attackers used unique, custom-built malware to evade detection, the company said in an update on its investigation. The malware was present between April and September of this year, the firm said in a statement. Terminals identified with malware have been taken out of service.

The retailer confirmed in September that its payment systems had been breached at stores in the U.S. and Canada, though it did not provide many more details.

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1,000,000 lost credit cards = £150,000 fine

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A UK travel company has been fined £150,000 for putting an “internal only” parking database system on the internet without securing it first. The vulnerable system was used as a stepping stone for a crook to steal more than 1M e-commerce records.
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Lulzy Christmas: Hackers buy presents for the poor with gov’t officials’ credit cards

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While there’s nothing quite like the warm and fuzzy feeling of giving gifts to the less fortunate, TeamBerserk hacktivists are donating “thoughtful gifts” that are paid for with credit cards belonging to naughty government officials, politicians and corporations.  
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Thieves allegedly install keyloggers to capture credit cards at Nordstrom

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A trio of men may have installed keyloggers at a Nordstrom department store in Florida to skim credit card numbers, reports KrebsOnSecurity. According to a police report, the men plugged standard keyloggers into the backs of cash registers and returned to remove them some days later with the alleged intent to use the information to create fake credit cards.

The keyloggers the thieves used imitate the look and design of PS/2 keyboard connectors, priced around $ 30-40. They are connected in series with a keyboard cord, between the computer and the keyboard, to intercept data transmitted between the two.

The Aventura, Florida police report states that the Nordstrom has security video footage of the three men entering the store and working as a team. Two distracted the staff while a third cased the registers and back of the computers. The men returned a few hours later and repeated their teamwork scheme, but this time the third man installed the keyloggers. They returned a third time to collect the keyloggers.

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