British retailer Dixons fined for pre-GDPR breach
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Neil Hodge2020-01-10T19:15:00
The ICO has fined Dixons Carphone for failing to take “basic, commonplace” security measures that would have alerted it to one of the country’s worst cyber-attacks.
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