Currys subsidiary Carphone Warehouse received a £400,000 fine for serious data-security failures
Company: Currys plc
Summary
The UK Information Commissioner's Office fined The Carphone Warehouse Limited £400,000 after finding serious failures in the company's protection of customer and employee information. According to the ICO, the company's failure to secure a computer system allowed unauthorized access to personal data belonging to more than three million customers and approximately 1,000 employees. Currys plc was named Dixons Carphone plc when the penalty was imposed, and Carphone Warehouse formed part of that group. This record concerns the subsidiary's documented data-protection failures and does not allege that every Currys business unit participated in the incident. Source / proof: UK Information Commissioner's Office: https://ico.org.uk/media2/migrated/2014675/data-security-trends-pdf.pdf
Record details
- Category
- Corporate Misconduct
- When it happened
- 2015–2015
- Status
- Resolved (January 10, 2018)
- Severity
- high
- Added to Rotten Company
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