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The Home Depot

Disclosed Sep 2, 201412 years ago56,000,000 affectedSettled

SEC filing

Custom malware at Home Depot registers exposes 56 million payment cards

Home Depot confirmed a breach of its US and Canadian payment systems after banks traced stolen cards to its stores; unique custom malware present between April and September 2014 put about 56 million payment cards at risk.

What is known

People affected56,000,000 (as reported by the organization)
DisclosedSep 2, 2014
DiscoveredSep 2014
AttackHacking
Data exposedPayment cards
SectorRetail · US
StatusSettled
Lawsuit or fineUSD 17.5M 46-state AG settlement (Nov 2020) (about $18M)

Sources

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
ResearchtotalSep 2, 201440,000,000
ResearchtotalSep 8, 201456,000,000

Other breaches at The Home Depot

BreachAffected
Leaked GitHub token exposed Home Depot internal systems for a yearDec 12, 20259 months agoExposed dataUnverifiedUnknown
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · disclosed: 2014-09-08 to 2014-09-02 · admin
  • 2026-09-25 · status: confirmed to settled · admin
  • 2026-09-25 · fine_usd: empty to 17500000 · admin
  • 2026-09-25 · lawsuit: empty to USD 17.5M 46-state AG settlement (Nov 2020) · admin
  • 2026-09-25 · added · seed source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Research), confirmed by Research. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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