Home Depot reported Thursday it has eliminated the malware that hackers used to compromise its point of sale terminals after thieves stole information from 56 million card accounts.
The popular home improvement retailer also said it upgraded the POS terminals in its U.S. stores to an encrypted system and that it would do the same for its Canadian stores in early 2015. The Canadian stores already take EMV equipped cards.
Contrary to some previous media reports, Home Depot said its hack had been singular in that the malware used had not been seen previously in other attacks.
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