ICO Monetary Penalty - DSG (Dixons) Retail fined £500k
Published: 09/01/2020
| ICO
The ICO has fined DSG Retail Limited (DSG) £500,000 after a cyberattack compromised a point-of-sale computer system, affecting at least 14 million people. The attack installed malware on 5,390 systems between July 2017 and April 2018, breaching the Data Protection Act 1998.
Update 09 October 2026: the original announcement (main story) on the ICO website has been taken down entirely. However, a copy has been archived on the Wayback Machine.
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