Dixons Carphone says 10 million accounts may have been hacked
(Reuters) — Some 10 million Dixons Carphone records containing personal data may have been accessed in a 2017 cyber attack, the British electronics and mobile phone retailer said on Tuesday, boosting an earlier estimate of 1.2 million.
It was the second major cyber attack in three years on the company, which has about 22 million customers in the U.K. and Ireland. It apologized to customers on Tuesday and said that an investigation into the hacks was nearly complete.
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Chili's Discloses Data Breach Exposing Payment Card Information
Restaurant chain Chili's is the latest retailer to report a data breach involving point of sale (PoS) security.
Brinker International, which operates over 1,600 Chili's restaurants globally, announced the data breach on May 12, after becoming aware of the security incident the day before. The company did not reveal how many customers have been impacted by the breach, though it did state that payment card information was stolen over a two-month period.
http://www.eweek.com/security/chili-s-discloses-data-breach-exposing-payment-card-information
Deloitte plans $600m of cyber security spending
Deloitte plans to spend $580m on its own cyber security defences over the next three years as pressure increases on the ‘big four’ accounting firms to fend off attacks that could jeopardise client data.
Deloitte, which suffered a high-profile cyber breach last year that affected a small number of its clients, has significantly increased its spending on this area from “several years ago”, when it spent about $50m a year.
https://www.ft.com/content/535cf6f8-4f8b-11e8-a7a9-37318e776bab
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https://www.csoonline.com/article/3265453/data-protection/cyber-insurance-data-breach-business-interruption-and-beyond.html
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