A Dixons Carphone subsidiary has been fined £500,000 after point-of-sale computers in Currys PC World and Dixons Travel shops were attacked in a cyber-attack that affected millions of customers. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), imposing the fine, warned that while it had fined DSG Retail the maximum under the legislation that was then in force, it would have been “much higher” under the new GDPR laws
