TalkTalk Hacked – Centralized Solutions and Unencrypted Customer Data
Theft of credit card information is nothing new under the sun, as these types of data breaches occur on a regular basis in this day and age. British provider TalkTalk is the latest company on a growing list of companies who suffered an attack by hackers. Customer data has, most likely, been obtained, which could include credit card details. Popular systems are always a high-value target for hackers, and they will stop at nothing to find and exploit security weaknesses. That being said, there is a major difference between hacking a website and obtaining sensitive customer data. In the case....
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Whenever a major company or service provider gets hacked, one would expect them to step up their security game by quite a margin. Just a few weeks ago, British ISP TalkTalk was hacked, and a fair amount of customer data was obtained illegally. But that isn’t the of the line for worrying customers, as researchers have unveiled additional vulnerabilities that put customer information at risk. When the TalkTalk hack occurred a few weeks ago, a total of 157,000 customers were affected. Among the information retrieved were names, addresses, phone numbers, and even dates of birth. Up until this....
Over the past few weeks, British Internet Service Provider TalkTalk has been the center of media attention. Not only did the company suffer from a hacking attempt on their customer database, but they also failed to encrypt a lot of sensitive information. To make matters even worse, the company is now denying thousands of victims any form of compensation. Even though TalkTalk has apologised to the customers who suffered from the hacking attack a while ago, those words have fallen on deaf ears for most people. With over 100,000 customers suffering from the hack, a lot of sensitive....
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Another hacking is in the news. This time, it's British credit company TalkTalk that has fallen victim to what can only be considered a long and everlasting war between digital companies and those who would seek to destroy them. Chief executive Dido Harding explained to BBC News: "It is hard for me to give you very much detail, but yes, we have been contacted by, I don't know whether it is an individual or a group, purporting to be the hacker." What makes this particular instance so dangerous is the fact that private customer information could have been involved, and that's always....
In light of the recent TalkTalk hack, a teenage boy hailing from Northern Ireland has been arrested. Official charges against this person include offences under the Computer Misuse Act., and the arrest comes after a joint operation between the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit and the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Ever since news broke about the TalkTalk attack, affected customers have been worrying how much of their personal information has been breached. The UK ISP admitted not all of the stored data was encrypted, and even credit card information could have been obtained as a....