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September 12, 2014

Home Depot hack: ‘Here we go again'

  • There are at least four reasons Home Depot's breach may not matter much to shoppers.
    • By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
    AP Retail Writer

    NEW YORK — Home Depot's data breach could wind up being among the largest ever for a retailer, but that may not matter to its millions of customers.

    The nation's largest home-improvement chain on Monday confirmed a theft that could have gone back as far as April and affected customers who used credit and debit cards at nearly 2,200 of its U.S. and Canadian stores. While the scope of the hack is not yet known, there's speculation that it could be the biggest yet.


     
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