5.9 Million Card Details Accessed in Dixons Carphone Hack

Dixons Carphone, a household name in the UK, announced (PDF) today that it is investigating “unauthorised access to certain data held by the company.” It describes this access as “an attempt to compromise 5.9 million cards in one of the processing systems of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores,” and “1.2m records containing non-financi