Home Depot sends hundreds of emails to wrong customers

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Home Depot sends hundreds of emails to wrong customers

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Eh sorry! Abode Depot Canada is ruddy-faced after sending out hundreds of order-pickup notifications to the incorrect people.

"Hey um... I'm pretty sure I received a reminder email for literally every online society that is currently ready for option up at literally every Home Depot store in Canada," tweeted Spencer Monckton, a graduate student in Toronto, yesterday (October. 28). "In that location are 660+ emails. Something has gone incorrect." (This story was first reported by Bleeping Figurer.)

@HomeDepotCanada Hey um... I'chiliad pretty sure I received a reminder email for literally every online gild that is currently ready for pick up at literally every Dwelling house Depot store in Canada. There are 660+ emails. Something has gone incorrect. moving picture.twitter.com/mBcO40Ge3oOctober 28, 2020

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"This is a VERY serious data breach that has affected at least 900 consumers, non just in-store option-up," tweeted Bethany Frances of the London, Ontario surface area. "My ONLINE Society was sent to 300 people, and I received the ONLINE ORDERS of 43 others. Names, habitation addresses, society info and credit card info was all shared :("

This is a VERY serious data breach that has affected at least 900 consumers, not but in-store selection-upward. My ONLINE Gild was sent to 300 people, and I received the ONLINE ORDERS of 43 others. Names, dwelling house addresses, lodge info and credit card info was all shared :( @HomeDepotOctober 28, 2020

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That's all accurate, except for the bit about the credit-carte data -- only the concluding four digits of card numbers were included in the emails, according to Bleeping Calculator. Many of the emails contained the accost of the Dwelling Depot store where the order was to be picked upwards, just some had the customer's home address likewise.

Affected Home Depot Canada customers are non facing much extra take chances as a result of these emails. Crooks can't do much with only iv credit-bill of fare digits. It's possible, merely unlikely, that some of the recipients of this e-mail flood might forwards them to spammers who could harvest the email addresses.

Still, this is pretty embarrassing for Abode Depot, and its Canadian division quickly created a boilerplate explanation, if not quite an apology, for everyone who tweeted at it complaining of the email messages.

"Cheers for reaching out to us. Nosotros are aware of what occurred this morning and can confirm that this upshot has now been stock-still," multiple identical Home Depot Canada tweet replies said. "This result impacted a very small number of our customers who had in-shop pick-up orders. Please DM us with any additional questions."

Paul Wagenseil is a senior editor at Tom's Guide focused on security and privacy. He has also been a dishwasher, fry melt, long-haul driver, lawmaking monkey and video editor. He'southward been rooting around in the information-security infinite for more than fifteen years at FoxNews.com, SecurityNewsDaily, TechNewsDaily and Tom's Guide, has presented talks at the ShmooCon, DerbyCon and BSides Las Vegas hacker conferences, shown up in random TV news spots and even moderated a panel word at the CEDIA habitation-applied science conference. You tin can follow his rants on Twitter at @snd_wagenseil.

Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/home-depot-email-snafu

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