Sens. Seek Answers From Apple, Home Depot on Breaches

Add senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Clair McCaskill (D-Mo.) to those seeking answers from Home Depot and Apple in recent security "incidents." Those would be the data breach at Home Depot possibly affecting a couple thousand stores and the "unauthorized access to [Apple's] cloud data base," which is their senatorial way of saying the naked pictures snatched from stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, niece of House Energy & Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

The senators have sent letters to Apple CEO Timothy Cook and Home Depot chairman Francis Blake seeking meetings and info.

The senators want a briefing with Home Depot execs on the status of the company's investigation and findings.

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John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.