Security News > 2020 > January > Dixons Fined by UK Regulator Over Data Breach
The UK Data Protection Regulator has issued a monetary penalty of £500,000 against Dixon Carphone for what it describes as "Multiple, systemic and serious inadequacies" in the firm's security posture.
This allowed Dixons to argue that the PAN was not personal data, and that this aspect of the breach was consequently not subject to the personal data focus of the data protection laws.
Interestingly, Dixons had a security assessment before the breach.
While the ICO made it clear that compliance or non-compliance with PCI DSS is not indicative of compliance or non-compliance with the DPA, the office had earlier made it clear in guidelines that it would "Consider the extent to which you have put in place measures that PCI-DSS requires particularly if the breach related to a lack of particular control or process mandated by the standard." Dixons was clearly found wanting.
Dixons separately argued that the quantitively larger part of the breach should be treated leniently because there was no evidence of widespread distress caused.
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