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Former Home Depot Managers Depict ‘C-Level’ Security Before the Hack

September 13, 2014/

Home Depot’s (HD) in-store payment system wasn’t set up to encrypt customers’ credit- and debit-card data, a gap in its defenses that gave potential hackers a wider window to exploit, according to interviews with former members of the retailer’s security team.

By Dune Lawrence, Ben Elgin, and Michael Riley

Full Story: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-12/home-depot-didnt-encrypt-credit-card-data-former-workers-say#r=hp-ls

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