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British regulators have fined Dixons Carphone, a large electronics and phone retailer, £500,000 for a breach that exposed millions of payment card details and personal data due to point-of-sale malware. In January 2018, the ICO fined it £400,000 for a 2015 breach of its Carphone Warehouse subsidiary after an attacker exploited an outdated WordPress installation.

A data breach at Dixons Carphone that was made public last month read more

Retailer Revises Breach Impact Upward; 5.9 Million Payment Cards Also ExposedStruggling European electronics giant Dixons Carphone says its investigation into a 2017 data breach has found that 10...

Dixons Carphone's 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated. In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in...

Retailer says probe found 10m records hit – but no evidence of fraud Dixons Carphone today admitted that the data breach it discovered last month affected nine times as many people as first believed.…

Dixons Carphone discovered a massive data breach last week, with attackers accessing details for 5.9 million customer payment cards. Now, the company has taken a reputation and profits hit.

Dixons Carphone, the multinational electrical and telecommunications retailer that holds over 2,000 stores across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe, has suffered a security breach. About the...

Dixons Carphone, a household name in the UK, announced (PDF) today that it is investigating "unauthorised access to certain data held by the company." It describes this access as "an attempt to...

Dixons Carphone said it discovered a massive cyberattack on its processing systems that targeted millions of payment cards and personal data records.

1.2 Million Nonfinancial Records Also at Risk, Electronics Giant WarnsThe U.K.'s Dixons Carphone is investigating a data breach that resulted in the suspected exposure of 5.9 million payment cards...