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UK Retail Hack Hits 2.4M Consumers

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the haven't-I-heard-this-story-before?-again dept.

Fnord666 writes:

http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/uk-retail-hack-hits-2-4m-consumers/

A British mobile phone retailer has fallen victim to a customer data breach.

Carphone Warehouse reported on Saturday (Aug. 8) that up to 2.4 million of its customers may have had their personal data accessed in a cyberattack, while encrypted credit card details may have been breached for as many as 90,000 of them, according to BBC News.

The retailer's owner, Dixons Carphone, told the BBC that the "vast majority" of Carphone Warehouse customers are unaffected. Via the outlet, the hack affected some of the company's separately managed divisions, including OneStopPhoneShop.com, e2save.com and Mobiles.co.uk.

The BBC adds that Dixons also provides services to iD Mobile, TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile and some Carphone Warehouse customers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:05AM (#221018)

    Shocking news that a company was technically exploited to get at customers' personally identifiable information!

    Shocking. Just shocking.

    Other than serving as a pro-privacy red meat story for our echo chamber, what is the point of this article?

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:54AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:54AM (#221044) Journal

    This isn't the first time you've made an "echo chamber" comment, is it?

    News is news, even if it's not surprising to you.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:05AM (#221052)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by zafiro17 on Tuesday August 11 2015, @04:41AM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @04:41AM (#221102) Homepage

    Maybe that's the big conclusion here after all: this now happens so frequently it's a non-issue. It's barely news. In fact ... it's the new normal! Gasp.

    Echo chamber, yes, but it's still important.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:51AM (#221188)

    Yes it is shocking and people should care. That's alone enough reason to post it.

    There should be laws protecting people's privacy and violators should be hanged, drawn and quartered.