October 2015 - TalkTalk: One of the UK’s most high profile cyber-attacks. The attack saw the personal details of 156,959 customers accessed, including the bank account number and sort code of 15,656 customers.
For a couple of weeks in 2015, Dido Harding was a regular fixture on UK news reports as she attempted to answer technical questions about the “sequential attack” against TalkTalk, and struggled to clarify what customer data had been exposed, and whether it had been encrypted or not.
Some think it’s the work of cyber jihadis, but the truth is much closer to home. This is the story of how teenage clicks crippled a communications giant.
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