The retailer isn't fully owning up to the attacks just yet, but it's offering a mea culpa all the same: free identity protection, credit reports and a host of other security services to anyone who used a card at the affected stores (PDF). And even though four Manhattan locations had reports of fraudulent payment use from this April to September without any malware or suspicious activity taking place, the outfit is extending the aforementioned benefits to customers of those stores as well.
Staples' numbers are a drop in the bucket compared to Home Depot's 56 million compromised cards, sure, but the fact that another retailer was hacked is still an issue. Maybe, just maybe, we can go the rest of the year without news of another data breach.
