Some 5.6 million credit cards were affected by a data breach at Dixons Carphone, committed through 5,390 sales terminals over nine months between July 2017 and April 2018 and resulting in a £500,000 (U.S. $653,000) fine from the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office. The company also admitted 73 percent of its database was infiltrated through malware on its tills, impacting 14 million people.
