Home Depot's security headaches increase with revelations that a former high-level security employee is now in prison for hacking.
Handyman favorite Home Depot, which recently suffered one of the worst consumer data leaks in history, just learned a lesson the hard way: Always run background checks on your security team. Amid a massive investigation into the company's information security practices, it turns out their former senior architect of IT security was fired from his last job for sabotaging his employer's network--and is now serving federal prison time.