21,000 Customer's Bank Details Hacked| TalkTalk |

TalkTalk is one of the biggest broadband and phone service provider in the United Kingdom. A few days earlier it suffered a major breach of information when its servers were hacked and the data belonging to its over 4 million customers was compromised. In connection with this hack, the police arrested a 15 year old buy on whom the hacking was pinned to.

He was arrested after a police raid on a house in Liverpool that led to the arrest of the boy from the Antrim County in Liverpool. The company suffered a major blow due to this hacking incident and its shares in the stock exchanges in the UK fell significantly after the customers as well as investors displayed their concerns about the security measures taken by such companies.

Initially it was thought that the incident of the data security breach compromised the information of the all the 4 million users of the company. However, the company was soon to refute these claims stating that the attack was significantly less intense and damaging to the company then thought. In an official statement, the company stated that the information leaked was less significant and not useful to hackers. Information such as credit card numbers had been stored as “xxxx” in parts instead of completely storing them in numbers.

The company has now declared the actual number of affected users. It has been stated that bank account details around 21,000 of the customers of the company were stolen. In addition, debit and credit card details of around 28,000 customers were stolen and the names, email addresses and the phone numbers of 1.2 million customers were leaked.

TalkTalk has been a victim of such attacks twice earlier in this year. It faced similar attacks in February and then again in August. The three attacks pose serious security concerns about the company’s initiatives to tackle them.

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by Malik korrich ~ dimanche 1 novembre 2015 0 commentaires

A 15 year old boy arrested for hacking TalkTalk

Scotland Yard has arrested a 15 year old boy in the Northern Ireland in connection with the hacking incident that breached the information stored with TalkTalk a United Kingdom based broadband and phone service provider.

The company has over 4 million customers across the United Kingdom and the attack on their website resulted in the breach of sensitive information of their customers. Consequent of the attack, the metropolitan police raided a house in Antrim County and arrested the boy on the suspicion of conducting the hack. He is charged for the offenses covered under the Computer Misuse Act.

The attack initially was considered grave and the company lost its market share value by 12 percent. However, later Dido Harding, the CEO of the company stated that the attack was not of very serious nature. Earlier it was thought that sensitive information such as the banking details of the customers could have been lost in the attack. But later it was found by the company that even if the data was last, it was only partial and did not comprise much of the information. For instance, the credit card data if stolen, would have XXXX instead of the numbers which means that this information is meaningless for stealing funds.

The boy is under the custody of the Police of Northern Ireland and is being investigated. There is ongoing inquiry into the incident and the premises from where the boy was arrested is continued being searched.

The investigation is conducted jointly by the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) and Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Such attacks are of serious nature and the companies can potentially lose billions in damages caused due to the breach of the data of their customers. 

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by Malik korrich ~ mercredi 28 octobre 2015 0 commentaires