A federal judge in Atlanta says multiple suits against The Home Depot associated with a massive breach that compromised financial data of about 56 million customers can move ahead to a possible trial.
U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. issued the ruling Wednesday, saying he had declined the Atlanta-based home improvement chain’s “invitation to hold that it had no legal duty to safeguard information even though it had warnings that its data security was inadequate.”
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