The data breach at Dixons Carphone last year was worse than it initially admitted . Data relating to 10 million customers , nearly double the original estimate , could have been hacked . The company reported the breach in June and has been investigating it since then . The company said it was contacting all customers to apologise and tell them what precautions to take . It said there was no evidence the hack was continuing and said it was adding new security measures . And in January the company was fined £400k by the ICO as a consequence of that earlier breach. In 2012 the company ’s Carphone Warehouse division suffered an attack involving data from 10 million people and was fined £ 400,000 ( $ 100 ) .
The data breach at Dixons Carphone last year was worse than it initially admitted . Data relating to 10 million customers , nearly double the original estimate , could have been hacked . The company reported the breach in June and has been investigating it since then . The company said it was contacting all customers to apologise and tell them what precautions to take . It said there was no evidence the hack was continuing and said it was adding new security measures . In 2012 the company ’s Carphone Warehouse division suffered an attack involving data from 10 million people and was fined £ 400,000 ( $ 100 ) .