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. It adds it has no evidence that the unauthorized access is continuing, having taken steps to secure its systems when the breach was discovered last month, saying: “We continue to make improvements and investments at pace to our security environment through enhanced controls, monitoring and testing.” The retailer admitted the attack 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. A spokesman for Tesco said: “We are working with our suppliers on a range of measures that will help us protect customer data. In 2015 the company’s Carphone Warehouse division suffered an attack involving data from three million people and was fined £400,000 ($524,000).
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 retailer admitted the attack 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. A spokesman for Tesco said: “We are working with our suppliers on a range of measures that will help us protect customer data. In 2015 the company’s Carphone Warehouse division suffered an attack involving data from three million people and was fined £400,000 ($524,000).