Dixons Carphone: Yeah, so, about that hack we said hit 1.2m records? Multiply that by 8.3
Dixons Carphone today admitted that the data breach it discovered last month affected nine times as many people as first believed. The retailer 'fessed up to the hack in June this year, saying that it had involved 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. However, in a statement issued today (PDF), Dixons Carphone revised this number, saying about 10 million records may have been accessed. The firm said that it now had evidence that "some of this data may have left our systems", but that the records don't contain payment card or bank account details. "There is no evidence that any fraud has resulted," it added. The biz – which owns Carphone Warehouse and Currys PC World – has now nearly completed a full investigation of the unauthorised access that it said took place in 2017. As a result, Dixons Carphone said it was contacting all of its customers "as a precaution" to apologise and advise them on how to reduce the risk