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It seems that careless Talk (Talk) cost them £400k

Telecoms company TalkTalk has been issued with a record £400,000 fine by the ICO for security failings that allowed a cyber attacker to access customer data ‘with ease’.  The ICO’s in-depth investigation found that an attack on the company last October could have been prevented if TalkTalk had taken basic steps to protect customers’ information.

ICO investigators found that the cyber-attack between 15 & 21 October 2015 took advantage of technical weaknesses in TalkTalk’s systems.  The attacker accessed the personal data of 156,959 customers including their names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses.  In 15,656 cases, the attacker also had access to bank account details & sort codes.

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