Home Depot website exposed personal data: Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports said Thursday it found personal data from about 8,000 individuals that was unprotected on Home Depot Inc.'s website, although it has now been removed. Yonkers, New York-based Consumer Reports, a nonprofit independent organization that researches and publishes product ratings and reviews, said in an article released Thursday that, based on an anonymous tip, it found a site that hosted Excel spreadsheets of customer records, including full names, phone numbers, mailing addresses and email addresses of about 8,000 people, as well as other information chronicling the apparent installation complaints of each customer of the Atlanta-based retailer.