Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-06-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Dixons Carphone
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Retail Trade
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Dixons Carphone has admitted a huge data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. The breach began in July last year and 105,000 cards without chip-and-pin protection have been leaked.