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Company: Home Depot
Current Parent Company: Home Depot
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $17,500,000
Year: 2020
Date: November 24, 2020
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Home Depot agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve multistate litigation concerning a 2014 data breach that exposed the credit card information of about 40 million customers.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Georgia
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-home improvement
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.