Just months after British broadband provider TalkTalk suffered what has been regarded as one of Britain’s biggest online security breaches, the company has confirmed that the “significant and sustained” cyberattack caused it to lose up to 101,000 customers and cost it up to £60m (roughly...
Yet another day and yet another data breach. Telecom service provider Vodafone is the latest target of hackers hunting for personal and financial details. The company admitted that hackers gained names, mobile telephone numbers, bank sort codes and the last four digits of bank accounts...
No one needs further convincing on the need to tackle cybercrime with regulation. As high-profile data breaches become commonplace, companies are preparing for a spate of regulation with government agencies realizing that it might be time to intervene. Last week saw two big breaches of...
In what could be regarded as one of Britain’s biggest online security breaches, British broadband provider TalkTalk confirmed the private payment and bank data of its 4 million customers may have been compromised through a cyberattack, Reuters reported late last week. Over the weekend, it...
June 11, 2019
The hacker responsible for the TalkTalk Telecom Group breach has been sentenced to four years in prison in the U.K. Bloomberg reported that Daniel Kelley, 22, was sentenced after pleading guilty to 11 charges of hacking and blackmailing TalkTalk. The attack, which happened in 2015, compromised around 20,000 accounts, with Kelley demanding TalkTalk CEO Dido […]
February 03, 2016
Just months after British broadband provider TalkTalk suffered what has been regarded as one of Britain’s biggest online security breaches, the company has confirmed that the “significant and sustained” cyberattack...
November 02, 2015
Yet another day and yet another data breach. Telecom service provider Vodafone is the latest target of hackers hunting for personal and financial details. The company admitted that hackers gained...
October 26, 2015
In what could be regarded as one of Britain’s biggest online security breaches, British broadband provider TalkTalk confirmed the private payment and bank data of its 4 million customers may...
