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Dixons Carphone employs greater than 42,000 folks in 9 international locations
Dixons Carphone has admitted a huge data breach involving 5.9 million fee playing cards and 1.2 million private data information.
It has begun investigating the hacking try, which it stated occurred up to now yr.
Dixons Carphone stated it had no proof that any of the playing cards had been used fraudulently following the breach.
It stated 5.8 million of the credit score and debit playing cards had chip-and-pin safety and that pin codes had not leaked.
As a outcome, about 105,000 non-EU playing cards, which weren't chip-and-pin, had been compromised, it stated.
The hackers had tried to achieve entry to one of many processing techniques of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel shops, the agency stated.
Dixons Carphone chief govt Alex Baldock stated it was "extremely disappointed" by the data breach and "sorry for any upset",
"The safety of our data needs to be on the coronary heart of our enterprise, and we have fallen quick right here.
"We've taken action to close off this unauthorised access and though we have currently no evidence of fraud as a result of these incidents, we are taking this extremely seriously," he additionally stated.