U.K. regulator dings tech retailer for breach that affected 14 million people
Britain’s data protection authority said Thursday it has fined Dixons Carphone, a massive electronics retailer, the maximum fine allowed under law for a data breach that exposed financial information from millions of customers. Malicious software lurking inside point-of-sale systems at Dixons Carphone stores from July 2017 through April 2018 collected payment card data of 5.6 million people. Attackers accessed personal information including names, email addresses and details about failed credit checks on some 14 million people. The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office fined the company £500,000 ($653,000) for the incident, the highest penalty authorized under the U.K.’s 1988 Data Protection Act. The ICO found that Dixons Carphone, which reported £10.5 billion (equivalent to $13.7 billion in 2020) in revenue in 2018, broke the law “by having poor security arrangements and failing to take adequate steps to protect personal data.” The company is also known as DSG Retail. Security issues included a […]
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