Home Depot’s class action settlement with customers whose personal and confidential financial information was stolen by hackers who penetrated the Atlanta-based home supply chain’s data security firewalls will provide an unexpected windfall to the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and Georgia Legal Services.

Lawyers representing Home Depot and those representing the class of as many as 56 million Home Depot customers have agreed to donate $250,000 to each nonprofit organization to enhance their services to the state’s low-income and indigent populace, many of whom the organizations’ executives told the court have been victimized by thieves and fraudsters trafficking in stolen identities.

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