Article 3CXAC Carphone Warehouse fined for 'striking' number of failures that led to data breach

Carphone Warehouse fined for 'striking' number of failures that led to data breach

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Alex Hern
from Technology | The Guardian on (#3CXAC)

Information Commissioner's Office fines company 400,000 for 'concerning' security issues following investigation of hack of 3m customers' data

Carphone Warehouse has been fined 400,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for a series of "systemic failures" uncovered following a data breach in 2015.

The ICO described the "number of distinct and significant inadequacies in the security arrangements" of Carphone Warehouse as "striking", and said that it was " particularly concerning that a number of the inadequacies related to basic, commonplace measures".

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