A pedestrian speaks on a mobile phone as he passes a Carphone Warehouse retail store, operated by Dixons Carphone Plc, in central London, U.K., on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

Dixons Carphone, a multinational electronic and telecommunications retailer and services company headquartered in London acknowledged a massive data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records.

While connecting a breach across the Atlantic Ocean to U.S. seems implausible, the incident provides a stark reminder of the ongoing commitment all organizations must have to protect personal data and stay compliant with evolving regulations. In the first of this two-part report, cybersecurity experts weighed in on the incident and its potential effects considering privacy concerns and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).

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