Home Depot Data Breach

Home Depot confirmed a Data Breach this week. Hundreds of emailed order confirmations for random strangers were sent to Canadian customers, each containing personal information.

Home Depot has exposed the private order confirmations of hundreds of Canadian consumers, containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, order details and partial credit-card information.

After customers began reporting that they had received hundreds of emails from the home-improvement giant, each containing an order confirmation for a stranger, the company confirmed the issue.

One affected customer posted a screenshot of his inbox on Twitter, filled with random people’s order confirmations, tweeting: “Hey um… I’m pretty sure I received a reminder email for literally every online order that is currently ready for pick up at literally every Home Depot store in Canada. There are 660+ emails. Something has gone wrong.”

This is not the first Data Breach for Home Depot

Home Depot was the subject of one of the most high-profile data breaches ever to come to light, with 50 million credit card numbers stolen and 53 million email addresses pilfered by unknown attackers in 2014. The place for “doers” agreed in 2018 to pay $19.5 million to compensate the victims of the incident, which stemmed from attackers using compromised vendor credentials to gain access to its network and then the company’s point-of-sale system.

How to Find out More

At this time we cannot find any information from Home Depot to see if you were in the group impacted. All inquiries should be directed to their service line at 1–800–466–3337. Once we have more details, we will update them here.