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Debit-Card Fraud Spikes Following Home Depot Breach
By Jill Scharr, September 9, 2014 9:00 AM - Source: Tom’s Guide US
A sharp uptick in ATM-withdrawal fraud may be linked to the theft of credit and debit cards from Home Depot stores, sources at several banks told independent security reporter Brian Krebs.
Home Depot confirmed the data breach in its payment systems last night (Aug. 8), but said debit-card personal identification numbers (PINs) were not included in the massive trove of stolen card data. Yet Krebs outlined a scenario that would nevertheless let online criminals change PINs on debit cards stolen from Home Depot, allowing fraudulent withdrawal of money from ATMs.
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Home Depot has not disclosed how its payment systems were penetrated, or whether any form of malware was implanted. Krebs’ sources tell him traces of the BlackPOS RAM scraper, which was behind the Target data breach last fall, were found on some Home Depot systems, but that cannot be confirmed.
What is almost certain is that the “track data” from the magnetic strips of millions of debit and credit cards were copied from Home Depot’s systems. Track data includes a card’s account number, the cardholder’s full name and the card’s expiration date. All that information is currently being sold in “carder” markets online.
In at least one carder market called Rescator, each card’s track data is being sold with the ZIP code of the store from which it was stolen. That’s valuable to a carder, because a card-issuing bank normally won’t consider suspicious a transaction that takes place near a cardholder’s residence.
Krebs contends that if the legitimate cardholder does indeed live near the store from which his or her card number was stolen, then that might provide criminals with enough location information, when combined with the cardholder’s full name, to get started on hunting down the legitimate user’s date of birth and Social Security number. ...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/home-depot-debit-card-fraud,news-19482.html
We shop at Lowe’s, because it’s closer.
I just called my insurance company (which is also my credit card issuer) to insure the RX-7, and the first item on their phone menu was, “Are you calling about the Home Depot security breach?”
Thanks for the ping!