Data Breach at Dixons Carphone

The BBC is reporting a data breach at Dixons carphone involving 5.9million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records which began in July 2017

The hackers had tried to gain access to one of the processing systems of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores…

A spokesperson for the National Cyber Security Centre said it was “working with Dixons Carphone and other agencies to understand how this data breach has affected people in the UK and advise on mitigation measures”…

But the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 for the 2015 breach, will now be looking very closely at this latest failing of the merged companies…

Dixons Carphone chief executive Alex Baldock said it was “extremely disappointed” by the data breach and “sorry for any upset”,

“The protection of our data has to be at the heart of our business, and we’ve fallen short here.

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