Currys-PC World fined £500,000 over cyber attack that compromised 14 million people's personal information

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Shopped in 2018 or 2019? You may have had your payment card details swiped in more ways than one
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Shopped in 2018 or 2019? You may have had your payment card details swiped in more ways than one

Currys owner DSG Retail fined the maximum under the old data protection regime - would've been much more under GDPR, warns ICO

DSG Retail, the electrical retailer behind Currys, PC World and Dixons, has been fined £500,000 by the ICO over a pre-GDPR cyber attack that compromised 5,390 cash tills. The attack commenced in July...

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