Brian Krebs reports on the most recent security breach at a major retailer. According to some reports, the breach started as far back as April 2014. There’s no direct evidence of a breach, but it looks like it’s only a matter of time before that changes, given the suspicious activity related to Home Depot being reported by financial institutions.

Update 2014Sep04: Details are starting to appear, and it looks like almost all Home Depot stores in the USA are affected.

Update 2014Sep19: Brian Krebs has additional details on the scale of the breach. According to Home Depot, as many as 56 million debit and credit card numbers were stolen.

Update 2014Nov08: As if this breach wasn’t already bad enough, apparently the attackers also stole as many as 53 million email addresses from Home Depot systems. Maybe this explains the recent uptick in spam email I’ve noticed.