Home Depot Fixes Year-Long Internal Access Exposure After Researcher Alert

Home Depot Fixes Year-Long Internal Access Exposure After Researcher Alert

Home Depot has revoked access to its internal systems after a security researcher discovered that a private access token belonging to one of its employees had been publicly exposed online for nearly a year, potentially allowing wide-ranging access to the retailer’s internal infrastructure. Exposed Token Granted Broad Internal Access Security researcher Ben Zimmermann told TechCrunch that he identified the exposed token in early November after fi…