TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
22-10-2015, 22:29
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TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
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The phone and broadband provider, which has over 4 million customers in the UK, said credit card and bank details could have been accessed.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34611857
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22-10-2015, 22:37
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Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
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22-10-2015, 23:51
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Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
Information for people who may be affected by this
http://m.help.talktalk.co.uk/oct22incident
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23-10-2015, 05:39
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Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
Total amateurs but not the only ones sadly that's for sure.
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23-10-2015, 08:54
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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.
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23-10-2015, 09:43
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Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
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Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11
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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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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
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.
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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 
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23-10-2015, 09:55
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Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
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Originally Posted by Gary L
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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It's the mobile version of the page - the full one is here http://help2.talktalk.co.uk/oct22incident
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23-10-2015, 20:08
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Re: TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack
TalkTalk hacking crisis deepens as more details emerge.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/...details-emerge
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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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