Dixons fined £500,000 by ICO for crap security that exposed 5.6 million customers' payment cards

Malware loaded onto more than 5k cash tills but pre-GDPR screw-up means retailer dodged bigger financial bullet

Dixons Retail is facing a 500,000 penalty from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a hacker installed malware that infected thousands of point of sale tills and scooped up 5.6 million payment card details."