Collaborate Disseminate
DSG Retail, the parent company of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, has been fined £500,000 for a hack which lasted from July 2017 to April 2018.
But if its hack had lasted just one month longer, they could have expected a much MUCH larger penalty.
Continue reading Just one month later, the Currys PC World/Dixons Travel hack would have cost them a heck of a lot more
The largest data breach disclosed this month was by T-Mobile, the telecoms giant said there had been “unauthorised access” to potentially 2 million of their 77 million customer accounts. According to the media, a hacker took advantage of a vulnera… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for August 2018
Following further investigations, Currys PC World today confirmed 10 million of their customer personal details may have been stolen by hackers, a revised number from the 1.2 million customers and 5.9 million payment cards it advised back in June.
In … Continue reading Latest on the Currys PC World Data Breach Impacting 10 Million Customers
Ransomware rears its head again, Dixons Carphone reveals its data breach was almost 1000% worse than they previously thought, a man is accused of stealing five million dollars worth of cryptocurrency through hijacking mobile phones, and a Canadian guy … Continue reading Smashing Security #089: Data breaches, ransomware, Bitcoin robberies, and typewriters
Company now says approximately 10 million personal records could have been accessed in security breach.
Continue reading Dixons Carphone admits hack far bigger than originally thought
Once again a large company has suffered a huge data breach, putting millions of innocent customers at risk.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Dixons Carphone data breach – millions put at risk of fraud