Britain’s Dixons Carphone discovers unauthorised data access


Pedestrians use umbrellas to shelter from the rain as they pass a Carphone Warehouse retail store, operated by Dixons Carphone Plc, in central London, U.K., on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Dixons Carphone Plc shares plunged the most in nine months after the retailer forecast that earnings this year will slump about 21 percent as it closes mobile-phone stores in a contracting U.K. household-electronics market. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

LONDON: British mobile phone and electricals retailer Dixons Carphone said on June 13 it had become the latest victim of cyber crime after discovering unauthorised access to its payment card data. 

“We have taken action to close off this access and have no evidence it is continuing. We have no evidence to date of any fraudulent use of the data as result of these incidents,” the company said. 

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