Home Depot surffered a data breah that exposed the private order confirmations of hundreds of Canadian consumers, containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, order details and partial credit-card information.
The company got to know about the issue when the customers began reporting that they had received hundreds of emails from the home-improvement giant.
The mail contained an order confirmation for a stranger.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/home-depot-confirms-data-breach-in-order-confirmation-snafu/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/home-depot-at-home-services
"id": "hom2128261122",
"linkid": "home-depot-at-home-services",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "10/2020",
"severity": "50",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 'Hundreds',
'industry': 'Home Improvement',
'location': 'Canada',
'name': 'Home Depot',
'type': 'Retail'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 'Hundreds',
'personally_identifiable_information': ['Names',
'Physical addresses',
'Email addresses'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Names',
'Physical addresses',
'Email addresses',
'Order details',
'Partial credit-card '
'information']},
'description': 'Home Depot suffered a data breach that exposed the private '
'order confirmations of hundreds of Canadian consumers, '
'containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, order '
'details, and partial credit-card information.',
'impact': {'customer_complaints': 'Customers reported receiving emails from '
'Home Depot containing order confirmations '
'for strangers.',
'data_compromised': ['Names',
'Physical addresses',
'Email addresses',
'Order details',
'Partial credit-card information']},
'title': 'Home Depot Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}