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TalkTalk customer data at risk following ‘significant and sustained’ cyber attack

The details of four million customers have been compromised after TalkTalk experienced a ‘significant and sustained’ cyber attack on the company’s website.

The telecommunications company released a statement this morning to say it has launched an investigation with the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit in an effort to ‘establish exactly what happened and the extent of any information accessed’

In the statement, TalkTalk admitted that there is a chance that some of the following data may have been compromised: names, addresses, date of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, TalkTalk account information, credit card details and/or bank details.

Dido Harding, CEO, said: “TalkTalk constantly updates its systems to make sure they are as secure as possible against the rapidly evolving threat of cyber crime, impacting an increasing number of individuals and organisations.

“We take any threat to the security of our customers’ data extremely seriously and we are taking all the necessary steps to understand what has happened here. As a precaution, we are contacting all our customers straight away with information, support and advice around yesterday’s attack.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .