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by iamtew 4187 days ago
Doesn't matter, if they're a UK based company they fall under the EU GDPR and can receive a fine of 5% of their worldwide turnover for any loss of personal data, blanked out credit card numbers or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulat...

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There are more egregious examples of data protection violation here, and the fines look pretty small:

https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/

A cursory read of your own link would have told you that the new Data Protection Regulation is not yet in force and so the figure you quote is incorrect.

The ICO in the UK currently has the ability to fine up to £500k as I understand it.