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Dixons Carphone has admitted a huge data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. It is investigating the hacking attempt, which began in July last year. Dixons Carphone said it had no evidence that any of the cards had been used fraudulently following the breach.There was "an attempt to compromise" 5.8 million credit and debit cards but only 105,000 cards without chip-and-pin protection had been leaked, it said.The hackers had tried to gain access to one of the processing systems of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores, the firm said.Dixons Carphone shares were down more than 3% in early afternoon trading.A spokesperson for the National Cyber Security Centre said it was "working with Dixons Carphone and other agencies to understand how this data breach has affected people in the UK and advise on mitigation measures".
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The Carphone Warehouse and Currys PC World owner has been investigating the hack since it was discovered in June. It said personal information, names, addresses and email addresses may have been accessed last year. However, no bank details were taken and it had found no evidence that fraud had resulted from the breach. The hackers also got access to records of 5.9 million payments cards, but nearly all of those were protected by the chip and pin system. Dixons said it was "very sorry for any distress" caused and it would be apologising to customers, although it did not say how or over what timescale it would be contacting them.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45016906