A federal judge in Atlanta has divided the litigation over last year’s data breach at The Home Depot Inc. into two tracks: consumers and financial institutions.

Both groups have filed more than 30 class actions over the breach, which compromised the data of 56 million customers who made purchases at checkout terminals from April to September. A federal panel last month ordered the cases coordinated for pretrial purposes before Thomas Thrash, chief judge of the Northern District of Georgia.

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