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  • Simon Stokes--Bmmagazine.co.uk
  • published date: 2020-01-23 11:15:00 UTC

In January the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined DSG Retail Limited (DSG) £500,000 after a ‘point of sale’ computer system was compromised as a result of a cyber-attack, affecting at least 14 million people. An ICO investigation found that an atta…

An ICO investigation found that an attacker installed malware on 5,390 tills at DSGs Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores between July 2017 and April 2018, collecting personal data during the nine-month period before the attack was detected. The companys… [+4714 chars]