DIXONS Carphone has become the latest British firm to fall victim to a cyber attack after revealing 5.9 million customer bank card details and 1.2 million personal data records were hacked.
The retailer behind Currys said that while 5.8 million of the payment cards targeted were protected by chip and pin, around 105,000 non-EU cards without chip and pin protection were compromised.
Dixons Carphone said relevant card companies had been notified, but added that there was no evidence of fraud on the cards as a result of the incident.
It added that its investigation had also found that hackers accessed non-financial personal dat for 1.2 million customer records.
The group is contacting all those affected and has called in the police and cyber experts and added extra security to its systems following the breach
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