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HOME DEPOT DATA BREACH- September 8th, 2014, Home Depot announced that its POS System was breached. There was a malware that was able to grab credit/debit card details of 56 million customers throughout United States of America. The retailer that supplied the hardware and building services had concluded in September that its POS systems had been infected with malware. The company later said an investigation showed that, posing as an antivirus software, a very target-specific custom built malware was used. The POS networks were infiltrated by the malware and the attackers were able to steal the payment card data. The attackers used the login credentials of a third-party vendor and gained access to one of Home Depot’s vendor environments.  Then they exploited  a vulnerability which was very specific to windows OS, that had allowed them to center through the vendor-specific environment to the Home Depot POS system in their corporate environment. After they had access to ...