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Jimmy-J

22-10-2015 22:29

TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

Quote:

The phone and broadband provider, which has over 4 million customers in the UK, said credit card and bank details could have been accessed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34611857

Hom3r

22-10-2015 22:37

Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

http://news.sky.com/story/1574652/ta...t-cyber-attack

Martin_D

22-10-2015 23:51

Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

Information for people who may be affected by this

http://m.help.talktalk.co.uk/oct22incident

denphone

23-10-2015 05:39

Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

Total amateurs but not the only ones sadly that's for sure.

heero_yuy

23-10-2015 08:54

Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

If people have foolishly used the same password there as elsewhere than they only have themselves to blame.

I have over 80 logins and thay all have vastly different cryptic passwords.

It's supposed to be a DDOS attack but that on it's own should not have compromised clients data. As suggested in the first link it may have been a smokescreen for a more devious attack.

Gary L

23-10-2015 09:43

Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

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Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11 (Post 35804652)

Information for people who may be affected by this

http://m.help.talktalk.co.uk/oct22incident

Why does clicking on one of the FAQ's take you completely away from the page and you can't get back?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35804673)

If people have foolishly used the same password there as elsewhere than they only have themselves to blame.

I have over 80 logins and thay all have vastly different cryptic passwords.

I bet you have them all written down on a piece of paper. so if someone did get that piece of paper with over 80 logins. then you'd only have yourself to blame for keeping them all together :)

BenMcr

23-10-2015 09:55

Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35804683)

Why does clicking on one of the FAQ's take you completely away from the page and you can't get back?

It's the mobile version of the page - the full one is here http://help2.talktalk.co.uk/oct22incident

denphone

23-10-2015 20:08

Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack

TalkTalk hacking crisis deepens as more details emerge.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...details-emerge

Quote:

The telecoms giant warned that the stolen customer data may not have been securely encrypted and that it had received a ransom demand from someone who claimed to have carried out the corporate hack.

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