In the summer of 2018, British shoppers found out that hackers had planted malware onto 5,390 point-of-sale payment tills at the high street stores of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, and stolen the personal data records of 1.2 million individuals, and 5.6 million payment card details. An investigation uncovered that the data was stolen between 24 July 2017 and 25 April 2018, and determined a number of security failings on parent company DSG Retail’s part, in including:

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