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Home Depot breach affected 56M debit, credit cards

By Anne D'innocenzio
Published September 19, 2014 2:25am ET
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Home Depot breach affected 56M debit, credit cards
FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2010 file photo, shoppers walk through the aisles at the Home Depot store in Williston, Vt. The Home Depot on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 said it has eliminated malware from its U.S. and Canadian networks that affected 56 million unique payment cards between April and September. | (Toby Talbot/AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — Home Depot said Thursday that a data breach that lasted for months at its stores in the U.S. and Canada affected 56 million debit and credit cards, far more than a pre-Christmas 2013 attack on Target customers.

The size of the theft at Home Depot trails only that of TJX Companies’ heist of 90 million records disclosed in 2007. Target’s breach compromised 40 million credit and debit cards.

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