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Why you should be concerned about payment card data breaches

IT Governance

The electrical retailer admitted to a breach involving 5.9 This follows the leak of about 880,000 credit card details at travel company Orbitz , 40,000 credit card details at Chinese-based smartphone manufacturer OnePlus , and countless other incidents. But that’s small fry compared to what happened at Dixons Carphone.

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PCI DSS: Lessons to learn from recent payment card breaches

IT Governance

What happened: In July 2018, the electronics retailer confirmed that 105,000 customers’ payment card details had been compromised , because they didn’t have chip-and-PIN protection. What happened: In January 2018, customers of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer began reporting fraudulent transactions on their bank accounts.