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UK mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse hacked

Xinhua, August 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Up to 2.4 million customers' data of the British mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, might have been accessed in a recent cyber-attack, the company said on Saturday.

The breach was discovered on Wednesday, which involved the names, addresses, date of birth information and bank details of 2.4 million customers, and the credit card data of 90,000 customers, the company said in a statement.

The company has notified local police and hired cyber-attack experts to investigate the breach.

The company said it has taken down affected websites and was trying to inform customers who might be affected by the data breach.

The affected part of the company operates websites such as OneStopPhoneShop.com, e2save.com and Mobiles.co.uk. Endit