Comparison Overview

The Home Depot

VS

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

The Home Depot

2455 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, Georgia, US, 30339
Last Update: 2025-12-11

The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, values and rewards dedicated, knowledgeable, and experienced professionals. We operate more than 2,300 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Canada, and Mexico. All of our associates have one thing in mind — helping our customers build and improve their homes. Join The Home Depot team today and see for yourself why we are consistently ranked as a top Fortune 500 company.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 125,004
Subsidiaries: 3
12-month incidents
1
Known data breaches
4
Attack type number
2

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

1000 Lowes Blvd, Mooresville, NC, US, 28117
Last Update: 2025-12-09
Between 800 and 849

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customers a week in the United States. Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 104,747
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
2
Attack type number
1

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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The Home Depot
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Lowe's Companies, Inc.
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
The Home Depot
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

The Home Depot has 49.25% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Lowe's Companies, Inc. in 2025.

Incident History — The Home Depot (X = Date, Y = Severity)

The Home Depot cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Lowe's Companies, Inc. (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Lowe's Companies, Inc. cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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The Home Depot
Incidents

Date Detected: 10/2025
Type:Cyber Attack
Attack Vector: Social Engineering, Compromised Salesforce Instances, OAuth Credential Theft (Salesloft/Drift)
Motivation: Financial Gain (Extortion), Reputation Damage, Legal Pressure on Salesforce
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 9/2014
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Third-party vendor's login credentials
Motivation: Financial gain
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 6/2014
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Third-party vendor credentials exploitation
Motivation: Financial gain
Blog: Blog
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Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Incidents

Date Detected: 9/2024
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 7/2013
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog

FAQ

The Home Depot company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Lowe's Companies, Inc. company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

The Home Depot company has faced a higher number of disclosed cyber incidents historically compared to Lowe's Companies, Inc. company.

In the current year, The Home Depot company has reported more cyber incidents than Lowe's Companies, Inc. company.

Neither Lowe's Companies, Inc. company nor The Home Depot company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Both Lowe's Companies, Inc. company and The Home Depot company have disclosed experiencing at least one data breach.

The Home Depot company has reported targeted cyberattacks, while Lowe's Companies, Inc. company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither The Home Depot company nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither The Home Depot nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

The Home Depot company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Lowe's Companies, Inc. company.

The Home Depot company employs more people globally than Lowe's Companies, Inc. company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither The Home Depot nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither The Home Depot nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither The Home Depot nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither The Home Depot nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither The Home Depot nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds HIPAA certification.

Neither The Home Depot nor Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

FreePBX Endpoint Manager is a module for managing telephony endpoints in FreePBX systems. Versions prior to 16.0.96 and 17.0.1 through 17.0.9 have a weak default password. By default, this is a 6 digit numeric value which can be brute forced. (This is the app_password parameter). Depending on local configuration, this password could be the extension, voicemail, user manager, DPMA or EPM phone admin password. This issue is fixed in versions 16.0.96 and 17.0.10.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 6.9
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. In versions 2.8.11 and below, the MySQLWriteTool executes arbitrary SQL provided by the caller using PDO::prepare() + execute() without semantic restrictions. This is consistent with the name (“write tool”), but in an LLM/agent context it becomes a high-risk capability: prompt injection or indirect prompt manipulation can cause execution of destructive queries such as DROP TABLE, TRUNCATE, DELETE, ALTER, or privilege-related statements (subject to DB permissions). Deployments that expose an agent with MySQLWriteTool enabled to untrusted input and/or run the tool with a DB user that has broad privileges are impacted. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 9.4
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Description

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. Versions 2.8.11 and below use MySQLSelectTool, which is vulnerable to Read-Only Bypass. MySQLSelectTool is intended to be a read-only SQL tool (e.g., for LLM agent querying, however, validation based on the first keyword (e.g., SELECT) and a forbidden-keyword list does not block file-writing constructs such as INTO OUTFILE / INTO DUMPFILE. As a result, an attacker who can influence the tool input (e.g., via prompt injection through a public agent endpoint) may write arbitrary files to the DB server if the MySQL/MariaDB account has the FILE privilege and server configuration permits writes to a useful location (e.g., a web-accessible directory). This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.2
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Description

Okta Java Management SDK facilitates interactions with the Okta management API. In versions 11.0.0 through 20.0.0, race conditions may arise from concurrent requests using the ApiClient class. This could cause a status code or response header from one request’s response to influence another request’s response. This issue is fixed in version 20.0.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Description

The Auth0 Next.js SDK is a library for implementing user authentication in Next.js applications. When using versions 4.11.0 through 4.11.2 and 4.12.0, simultaneous requests on the same client may result in improper lookups in the TokenRequestCache for the request results. This issue is fixed in versions 4.11.2 and 4.12.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N