Home Depot breach affected 56M debit, credit cards

Second largest breach for retailer on record

In this Aug. 14, 2012 file photo, a customer walks toward a Home Depot in Nashville, Tenn. Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 confirmed that its payment systems have been hacked in a data breach that could affect millions of shoppers who used credit and debit cards at its more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian stores. - photo by Associated Press

Home Depot Data Breac Heal W — In this Aug. 14, 2012 file photo, a customer walks toward a Home Depot in Nashville, Tenn. Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 confirmed that its payment systems have been hacked in a data breach that could affect millions of shoppers who used credit and debit cards at its more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian stores. - photo by Associated Press

NEW YORK — Home Depot said that 56 million debit and credit cards are estimated to have been breached in a data theft between April and September at its stores in the U.S. and Canada. That makes it the second-largest breach for a retailer on record. The nation's largest home improvement retailer, based in Atlanta, also confirmed Thursday that the malware used in the data breach has been eliminated.

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