The Home Depot

Two 'The Home Depot' stories November 2014 - May 2015

PayPal partner Home Depot quietly drops support for Apple Pay after quietly accepting it

Ben Lovejoy May 5 2015 - 4:09 am PT

A public relations representative demonstrates how a PayPal customer can pay for goods using their mobile phone number at a cashier station at a Home Depot store in Daly City

Update: Home Depot says it plans to accept Apple Pay in the near future.

Home Depot appears to have quietly stopped accepting Apple Pay. Although never officially named as a partner, the company has supported contactless payment and Apple Pay used to work in at least some of its stores. An Apple support document updated last week lists Home Depot as one of the stores that “might not currently be set up” to accept Apple Pay.

The change appears to be related to Home Depot’s deal to accept PayPal as a payment method both in store and online …
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Home Depot blames security breach on Windows, senior executives given new MacBooks and iPhones

9to5 Staff Nov 9 2014 - 6:05 pm PT

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Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal published an in-depth look at The Home Depot’s recent security breach of its payment data systems, in which 56 million credit card accounts and 53 million email addresses of customers were compromised. A root cause of the security breach: a Windows vulnerability in the retailer’s main computer network.
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