Investigator: Home Depot not in compliance with some data security standards at time of breach

A forensic investigator working for payment card networks claims Home Depot was not in compliance with some data security standards at the time of its data breach last year. The home improvement giant (NYSE: HD) reported March 26 in its 2014 annual report that while an independent third-party assessor found the portion of its network that handles payment card data to be compliant with data security standards in the fall of 2013, and the company was in the process of obtaining such certification…